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If Only (2019 Film)
''If Only'' () is a 2019 French/Italian comedy-drama film directed by Ginevra Elkann. Plot Alma and her two older brothers Sebastian and Jean life with their mother Charlotte (Céline Sallette) and stepfather Pavel in Paris. The family has converted to their stepfaher's religion, Russian Orthodoxy. The children fly to Rome to spend the Christmas holiday with their father Carlo (Riccardo Scamarcio). Carlo's girlfriend Benedetta (Alba Rohrwacher) joins them for a holiday by the sea. Cast * Riccardo Scamarcio - Carlo * Alba Rohrwacher - Benedetta * Céline Sallette - Charlotte * Benjamin Baroche - Pavel * Oro De Commarque - Alma * Milo Roussel - Sebastian * Ettore Giustiniani - Jean * Brett Gelman Brett Gelman (born October 6, 1976) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Murray Bauman in Netflix's horror-supernatural series ''Stranger Things'' and as Martin in the BBC comedy '' Fleabag''. Gelman began his care ... - Bruce References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginevra Elkann
Ginevra Elkann (born 24 September 1979) is an Italian film producer and director, heiress and socialite. She is a member of the Agnelli family and granddaughter of Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli. Early life Elkann was born in London, on 24 September 1979, the daughter of the Italian Margherita Agnelli and the French-Italian writer Alain Elkann. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic, and she was raised Catholic. Her maternal grandparents were princess and socialite Marella Agnelli and the industrialist Gianni Agnelli. She is the great-grandniece of Ettore Ovazza. She has two older brothers, John Elkann, who is chairman of the Fiat group of companies, and Lapo Elkann. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she moved first to Rio de Janeiro and then to Paris with her mother and stepfather, the Russian count Serge de Pahlen. She graduated from the American University of Paris. Career Elkann worked as third assistant director on Bernardo Bertolucci's 1998 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Mieli
Lorenzo Mieli (born 15 April 1973) is an Italian film producer, entrepreneur and television producer. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations External links Lorenzo Mieliat IMDb References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mieli, Lorenzo 1973 births Living people Italian film producers Italian television producers Italian Roman Catholics Nastro d'Argento winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Barzini
Chiara Barzini (born 1979) is an Italian writer known for her semi-autobiographical novel ''Things that Happened Before the Earthquake'' set in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Early life and education Chiara Barzini was born in 1979 in Rome, Italy, the oldest child of film director Andrea Barzini and Stephania Barzini. Her grandfather was the Italian journalist and politician Luigi Barzini Jr. and her great grandfather was the Italian war correspondent, journalist, and pro-Fascist politician Luigi Barzini Sr. When Barzini was 15 in 1994, she moved to the United States with her parents and younger brother, where the family lived in Van Nuys and she attended Van Nuys High School. When her parents moved back to Italy in 1999, Barzini stayed in California and attended the University of California, Santa Cruz. Later she moved to Brooklyn, worked in Greenwich Village as a waitress, and studied creative writing at the City College of New York. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Scamarcio
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio (; born 13 November 1979) is an Italian actor and film producer. Early life Scamarcio was born in Trani, Apulia, the son of Irene Petrafesa, a painter, and Emilio Scamarcio. He went to train as an actor at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome, where he now lives. Career His debut acting role was in a TV series in 2000, while his first ever lead role in a feature film was in '' Three Steps Over Heaven'' (2004), directed by Luca Lucini. Through this he immediately became well known to the Italian speaking public, especially a young audience. His success brought him prominence as a sex symbol and boosted requests for his acting skills, leading to his role in ''Texas'' (2005), directed by Fausto Paravidino and soon to him joining the cast of '' Romanzo Criminale'', playing a monosyllabic, enigmatic thug character in a powerful portrait of a mafiosi community directed by Michele Placido. In 2006 he acted in ''The Black Arrow'', a TV series broadcast by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Rohrwacher
Alba Caterina Rohrwacher (, ; born 27 February 1979) is an Italian-German actress. Early life Alba Rohrwacher was born in Florence to a German father and an Italian mother. From the age of 17 to 21 she studied medicine, intending to be a doctor. At the age of 21 she moved to Rome to study acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Her younger sister is director Alice Rohrwacher. Career Her first movie role was in 2004 in '' L'amore ritrovato''. In 2008, she was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress. In 2009, she received a David di Donatello for Best Actress for her performance in Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two '' giallo'' masterpieces, '' The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' ...'s ''Giovanna's Father''. At the Berlin International Film Festival 2009 she was awarded the Shooting Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Sinigallia
Riccardo Sinigallia (born 4 March 1970) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Life and career Sinigallia, born in Rome in 1970, began writing songs at the age of twelve and gained notoriety within the underground music scene during the 1980s, participating in groups such as the 10 PM Band and 6 Suoi Ex. He is the brother of Daniele Sinigallia, who is also a songwriter and music producer. In the 1990s, he collaborated as a songwriter and arranger with artists such as Niccolò Fabi and Max Gazzè, contributing to hits like "Vento d'estate" and " Quelli che benpensano". His career took off in 2000 with the band Tiromancino, for which he co-wrote the successful album ''La descrizione di un attimo''. That same year, alongside Tiromancino, he participated in the Sanremo Music Festival in the Newcomers section with the song "Strade", finishing in second place. In 2005, he returned to the Sanremo Music Festival as a guest of Marina Rei in the duets night with the song "F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locarno Film Festival
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Locarno Film Festival was established by the tourist office Pro Locarno and several professionals from the movie industry. As stated by cinema historians, it emerged as a ‘grassroots celebration’ and mostly oriented on attracting tourists to Locarno, offering various entertainment events such as fashion shows and excursions. The inaugural eveni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
(; English: "the Republic") is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo, and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as a leftist newspaper, which proclaimed itself a "newspaper-party" (). During the early years of , its political views and readership ranged from the reformist left to the extraparliamentary left. Into the 21st century, it is identified with centre-left politics, and was known for its anti- Berlusconism, and Silvio Berlusconi's personal scorn for the paper. In April 2020, the paper was acquired by the GEDI Gruppo Editoriale of John Elkann and the Agnelli family, who is also the founder and owner of . Maurizio Molinari, the then editor of , was appointed as 's editor in place of ; this prompted the resignation of several journalists opposed to this change. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céline Sallette
Céline Sallette (born 25 April 1980) is a French actress. Career In 2012, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in ''House of Tolerance''. In 2016, she was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2017 she gained critical success with her interpretation of the role of "Masha" in Les Trois Soeurs by Simon Stone at Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe Personal life She is in a relationship with director Laurent Laffargue, with whom she has a daughter named Alice. Filmography Other awards * 2013: Prix Romy Schneider The Prix Romy Schneider (Romy Schneider Award) is awarded annually to a young and upcoming actress working in the Cinema of France, French film industry. It is named after the actress Romy Schneider (1938–1982). The prize is awarded by a jury ... References External links * 1980 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Orthodoxy
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. The history of the ROC begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus', which commenced in 988 with the baptism of Vladimir the Great and his subjects by the clergy of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. Starting in the 14th century, Moscow served as the primary residence of the Russian metropolitan. The ROC declared autocephaly in 1448 when it elected its own metropolitan. In 1589, the metropolitan was elevated to the position of patriarch with the consent of Constantinople. In the mid-17th century, a series of reforms led to a schism in the Russian Church, as the Old Believers opposed the changes. The ROC currently claims exclusive jurisdiction over the Eastern Orthodox Christians, irrespective of their ethnic background, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
