Anita is perfect. She’s the perfect Mom. She has the perfect man. She has the perfect job.
Micaela Ramazzotti
A refined and unscrupulous plan of revenge, starring Micaela Ramazzotti and directed by yet another super cool female Italian director, Giorgia Farina. We loved her last comedy, Amiche Da Morire, and this one looks even better.
At just 20, she gave the stunning performance of a grieving sister in La Stanza Del Figlio (The Son’s Room), and 2 years later as Giorgia in La Meglio Gioventù (The Best of Youth), Jasmine Trinca is all grown up now with a career more amazing than ever.
La Stanza Del Figlio
Born in Rome, she never took an acting class, married her college sweetheart, and cultivated a carefully managed and meaningful career, taking roles that were not always box office successes, but always critically acclaimed and full of integrity.
La Meglio Gioventu’
If you haven’t yet seen La Stanza Del Figlio or La Meglio Gioventù, why not? La Stanza Del Figlio won the Palme D’or at Cannes and a whole lot of other awards, and La Meglio Gioventù is practically “Contemporary Italian Film 101″, originally a TV mini-series that tells the epic story of two brothers over 4 decades.
Nessuno Si Salva Da Solo .
Maraviglioso Boccaccio
Today, a dozen films later at 34, Jasmine stars with Riccardo Scamarcio in Sergio Castellito’s Nessuno Si Salva Da Solo, in the Taviani Brothers’ Maraviglioso Boccaccio (Wondrous Boccaccio), and in Sean Penn’s new film, The Gunman, opening in American theaters March 20.
When we first started watching for Italian directors and actors on Twitter, it wasn’t a very exciting endeavor. Most didn’t tweet at all and the ones who did either did it rarely or tweeted political stuff we didn’t get.
That’s changing.
It’s not like we want you to go all Kardashian on us, Italians, like Kim with her 18.9K mind-numbing tweets; we don’t care what you had for breakfast or what you are wearing today. But we DO want to hear about your new projects.
The I Love Italian Movies Twitter List, ‘Follow The Stars’ has 81 members, some who are actors and directors, some just really great fan sponsored, and some are film accounts.
First, make sure you are following @Italian_Movies, and then FOLLOW THE STARS.
Particularly interesting follows right now:
Film account and director, Laura Bispuri, of the new film Vergine Giurata, Sworn Virgin, coming to the Tribeca Film Fest:
Carolina Crescentini, from the new Taviani Brothers’ film, Maraviglioso Boccaccio
Alessandro Gassman, always up to something.
Director Francesca Archibugi, from Il Nome Del Figlio
They’re all women, and they’re all ON FIRE.
Check out these three films from directors Laura Bispuri, Giorgia Farina, and Francesca Archibugi.
Laura Bispuri’s ‘Vergine Giurata’ (Sworn Virgin), part of the Tribeca Film Festival lineup. Stars Alba Rohrwacher and will without a doubt turn heads in the USA. The film is the fascinating story of a “sworn virgin”, an Albanian woman that has taken an oath to live the rest of her life as a man.
Giorgia Farina’s ‘Ho Ucciso Napoleone’ (I Killed Napoleon) looks HILARIOUS, with Micaela Ramazzotti as a woman scorned and out for revenge. It’ll be in Italian theaters TOMORROW!
And don’t forget Francesca Archibugi’s ‘Il Nome Del Figlio’ (An Italian Name), also starring Micaela Ramazzotti, as the woman who wants to name her son Benito. The birth of the baby in the film is actual footage of Micaela giving birth!
The gorgeous and talented Bobulova can be seen these days in the United States in the award-winning Black Souls (Anime Nere). In this film, she’s Valeria, the rich housewife in Milano that doesn’t seem to care and/or want to know where all the money is coming from. In her mind she’s separated herself from the “crooks”, her relatives, that are doing her husband’s dirty work.
Barbora in ‘Black Souls’
She was wonderful in Ivan De Matteo’s ‘The Dinner’, I Nostri Ragazzi, playing the “Barbie” wife of a guy who never seems to see eye to eye with his brother. When the brothers and their wives share a big problem, the friction between them all is intensified. The Dinner premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will be screened at this year’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema at New York’s Lincoln Center.
The Dinner, I Nostri Ragazzi
You can watch her on Amazon Instant as the young Coco Chanel in the movie, Coco Chanel with Shirley McClaine.
Coco Chanel
Take a look at some of her other work, and help us wish her tanti auguri!
You should know Alba Rohrwacher, and here’s why:
1) She’s in EVERYTHING. She’s every director’s dream, taking difficult roles from the mentally unbalanced mom in Hungry Hearts, to the angry, sexually conflicted girlfriend in Via Castellana Bandiera, to the culturally imposed cross-dresser in Vergine Giurata.
2) And she’ll go to great lengths for a part. The already willowy thin Alba lost 20 pounds to play the anorexic loner in La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi.
3) She’s nominated for Best Actress for the Nastro D’Argento awards (for Hungry Hearts), and seems like a shoo-in to me since she also starred in Laura Bispuri’s Vergine Giurata; this is her year.
4) She’s already won a Best Actress award for Hungry Hearts, at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
5) And there’s so much more to come, like Marco Bellocchio’s L’Ultimo Vampiro (which DOP Daniele Ciprì assures me is NOT a vampire movie).
Giorni e Nuvole (Days and Clouds)
Il Comandate e la Cicogna (Garibaldi’s Lovers)
La Bella Addormentata (Dormant Beauty)
Cosa Voglio Di Più (Come Undone)
Me with Alba and everybody from Sworn Virgin
Star of ‘Cloro’ and ‘Salvo’, here’s what you need to know.
A BONUS #11 !!!! She’s nominated for BEST ACTRESS in the Italian Golden Globes!
#10 Sara did her own swimming in the film ‘Cloro’
Sara trained as a modern dancer, which helped her pull off looking like a winning synchronized swimmer, but she’d never done it before making the film!
#9 She’s gorgeous.
Sara at Open Roads, New Italian CInema
#8 She has no idea how famous she is!
When I told Sara how we all had seen and loved Salvo, she was genuinely surprised and delighted. “In America?”, she asked me? “People know me in America?” In the end, she says, “I don’t want to be famous. I just want to make great cinema.”
#7 She’s from Pescara
She left her family and her hometown of Pescara and arrived in Rome with nothing, but hard work paid off. She’s got a mom, dad, and older sister who is studying to become a doctor.
#6 She’s had a boyfriend for a year.
That’s all she’ll say.
Salvo
#5 She spent time with blind women for her role as the blind Rita in Salvo
As this was her first role, she gives all the credit for her amazing performance to her directors, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza.
#4 She’s studying English and would like to do more English language films and is trying to learn how to speak without an accent.
She’s recently made the English language movie, Francesco, also starring Rutger Hauer and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz.
Francesco
#3 She’s an old pro at all the major film festivals.
Sundance is crazy and comfortable, but not glamorous (Cloro premiered there), The Berlinale is a little more glamorous (Cloro was presented there), but Cannes is very, very glamorous (Salvo was presented there).
#2 A goal? To work with Martin Scorsese!
She’s a natural for Scorsese.
#1 She’s a lovely, talented girl that you should know.
Salvo
Last week I interviewed director Cristina Comencini and when I asked her about casting her latest (adorable) comedy Latin Lover, she talked about how there were certain actors that she just always thought of immediately, hoping they are available. The late Virna Lisi was one of them, and Angela Finocchiaro, “Oh, and Margherita Buy, of course!”
Of course.
Vintage Margherita Buy with Carlo Verdone
Here are the Top Ten Things To Know About Italy’s Top Actress
1) She was named Best Actress 2015.
2) She’s worked for practically everybody, from Silvio Soldini, to Comencini, to Ferzan Ozpetek, to Nanni Moretti, to Giuseppe Tornatore…( I could do this all day. Everyone wants La Buy.)
3) She’s now won more David di Donatello statues (the Italian equivalent of the Oscars) than any other actress, this year surpassing Sophia Loren.
4) She admitted in an interview that she’s lost one of them.
5) She’s 53 and fabulous, looking youthful, beautiful, and getting as many movie roles as ever.
6) She used to be married to Sergio Rubino and she lives a very un-diva-like life in Rome.
7) She won the Best Actress award 2 years ago for her role in A Five Star Life (Viaggio Sola), and you can stream that one here in America.
With Stefano Accorsi in A Five Star Life
8) When asked about how it was going with men these days she says, “Not good. But the problem there is me. I don’t have an easy-going nature.” And, “It’s all over anyway. Enough. I’ve never understood love.)
9) Will she ever do an English language movie? She says she’s too lazy to learn English. (That’s OK – most of us are too lazy to learn Italian.)
With Antonio Albanese in Days and Clouds
10) You can see her in lots of movies here in the US.
Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam)
His Secret Life (Le Fate Ignorante)
The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta)
A Five Star Life (Viaggio Sola)
She’s appeared in dozens of films, but for me, she will always be Grazie, the holistic masseuse in Pane e Tulipani.
“Oh mio Dio, si è tutta bagnata mi dispiace. Cosa posso fare? Ah, le va una vodka?” (Oh my God, you’re soaked, I’m sorry! What can I do? Ah, do you want a vodka?), and with these words, Grazie and Rosalba became best friends forever, the girlfriends that I’d love to be third wheel to.
Marina Massironi was born in Legnano and was once married to the Giacomo of the famous Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo; together they formed the comic duo “Hansel & Strudel”.
Hansel & Strudel
She won a best supporting actress David di Donatello and a Nastro D’Argento for Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) and if you have never seen it, first of all, WHAT???
BREAD AND TULIPS, (Pane e Tulipani), Maria Massironi, Antonio, Catania, 2000. (c)First Look Pictures.
Want to be au courant? Get to know these amazing women who are changing the face of Italian cinema.
Laura Bispuri Follow her on Twitter
Laura Bispuri is one of the most exciting new directors, female or otherwise, in Italian cinema. Her Vergine Giurata, Sworn Virgin, has won so many awards and prizes that I have lost count (imdb.com says 4 but that’s not even the half of it.)
READ MY INTERVIEW WITH LAURA BISPURI
Director Laura Bispuri with Sworn Virgin actresses Flonja Kodheli and Alba Rohrwacher
Alba Rohrwacher
Alba, Alba, Alba. Seems like this amazing actress is in everything, and why not? She’s beautiful and talented, with awards too numerous to mention. She was a 2009 Berlinale Shooting Star and she’s never come back down to earth, turning everything she’s involved to gold. Most recently she was named Best Actress for her role in Hungry Hearts at the Venice Film Festival.
Alba Rohrwacher
Asia Argento Follow her on Twitter
Asia got her start with her father, the king of Italian horror films Dario Argento (“Sometimes I think my father gave me life because he needed a lead actress for his films.”). She’s a highly sought after actress but she says she’s going to direct exclusively from now on. She beautiful, brainy, and very controversial.
Asia Argento
Olivia Musini
You’ll not have seen Olivia on the big screen, but that was her on the little one, accepting her award for Best Producer for Anime Nere (Black Souls) along with her father Luigi. Also having produced the Taviani Brothers ‘Wondrous Boccaccio’, she’s young, gorgeous, and hard-working, and she’s definitely a powerhouse to watch for.
Olivia Musini
Cristina Comencini
The daughter of Luigi Comencini didn’t need nepotism to make her way to being one of Italy’s most important directors. She’s first and foremost an author, according to her (READ MY INTERVIEW WITH CRISTINA COMENCINI), but she directed over a dozen films, is a playwright, was nominated for an Academy Award (Don’t Tell), and her latest film, Latin Lover, is her best ever.
Cristina, me, and I Love Italian Movies friend Lauren Marino.
Margherita Buy
This year’s Best Actress, the David di Donatello Awards, is no stranger to David. Margherita has won more than even Sophia Loren, and at 53 she shows no sign of slowing down. Her latest film, Mia Madre, was directed by Nanni Moretti and premiered at Cannes, but the list of directors she’s not worked with would be shorter than the list of ones she has worked for.
Margherita Buy with her 2015 David
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria grew up in Paris because of a threat from a threat from the Red Brigades, and it’s given her an international appeal that is undeniable. She wrote, directed and starred in the autobiographical Un Castello in Italia (A Castle in Italy), nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes in 2013. She won the David di Donatello for Best Actress for her role in Il Capitale Umano (Human Capital).
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in Human Capital
Micaela Ramazzotti Follow her on Instagram
Mrs. Paolo Virzì is not riding on her director husband’s coattails. She every bit the blonde bomb-shell, and she’s proving herself one of the most sought after actresses today, with roles in Il Nome Del Figlio, Ho Ucciso Napoleone, and The First Beautiful Thing, for which she won the David for Best Actress.
Micaela Ramazzotti
Sara Serraiocco Follow her on Facebook
Rising star Sara Serraiocco is 24 and already killing it as an actress, with roles in Salvo and Cloro, winning both a Nastro D’Argento and an Italian Golden Globe. THE TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SARA SERRAIOCCO
Sara Serraiocco
Valeria Golino
Valeria will turn 50 this year and WOW! Who would believe it? (If there was ever a woman who could lie about her age!) She’s had a handsome, famous boyfriend, Riccardo Scamarcio, for almost 10 years and has starred in dozens of films, including English language ones like Rain Man with Tom Cruise. Now, she’s getting a lot of attention directing, winning awards for her film Miele.
Valeria Golino
Paola Cortellesi
Paola is kind of the Italian Lucille Ball, and could be a big hit in Hollywood movie: she has IT ALL! She’s pretty, talented, hilarious, and by all accounts a very nice person. Her latest film Scusate Se Esisto (Excuse me for living) with Raoul Bova is one of the funniest films I’ve seen in a long time.
Join her adorable young fans on Twitter
Paola Cortelessi
Greta Scarano
Another rising star, Greta is beautiful, charming, and an amazing actress. If you haven’t yet seen Senza Nessuna Pietà, with Pierfrancesco Favino, please do, and then you’ll know what I mean when I say that Greta is meant for greatness.
Greta Scarano
“Number One”, “Authentic”, “The Best of the Best”: Actress and Comedian Paola Cortellesi
She’s the first women to win the prestigious award, given with the Nastri D’Argento in Taormina this coming Saturday.
The “Premio Nino Manfredi” is an award that honors Nino Manfredi, an Italian comedy icon in the ’60s and awarded by his widow, Erminia.
Said Erminia of Paola Cortellesi, “I am proud to award Paola Cortellesi, distinguished in all of the disciplines of performance and who has prominently taken the scepter from great actresses like Monica Vitti and Mariangela Melato.”
The prize will be awarded Saturday night with the other Nastri D’Argento in Taormina on Saturday. Congratulations Paola!
Don’t forget to join her adorable fans on Twitter!
The directors of Salvo are preparing a ghost story for us.
Piazza and Grassadonia have been tight-lipped about their new project but they’ve revealed a little to Cinecittà News.
Is it a ghost story? “It’s a Sicilian fairy tale with an important dark component”, Grassadonia told Cinecitta’s Cristiana Paternò. “The protagonists are two young people, in love, who are able to fulfill their dreams in the most unexpected way at the end of the film.
But will it be like a Hollywood ghost story with all kinds of special effects?
“No, the challenge is to bring the atmosphere of a fairy tale populated by ogres only accentuated by some characteristics of the location, of the characters, of the situations, but trying to do it in a minimalist way. The trick will be to bring out the emotions without the special effects that Garrone had to use.”
Salvo
If you haven’t seen their first film, first of all, why not? Salvo is the remarkable first film from the duo, the story of the mobster, more lonely gunslinger than slick mafioso. Any joy he’s ever gotten from the proficiency of his chosen profession seems to have been sucked out of him. His landlords kowtow to him as if he is a king that might at any minute say, “Off with their heads!” but the convenience of having subservients at his beck and call to keep the cops off his back is expected, not appreciated.
So when Salvo arrives for a hit and finds his target’s blind sister, Rita, home alone, we really don’t see any clues as to why he doesn’t immediately whack her. She’s pretty? She’s blind? Whatever the reason for the mercy he shows her, it doesn’t extend to her brother. He does the job that he’s arrived to do, and then kidnaps Rita.
Sara Serraiocco
Rita is played by the beautiful rising star Sara Serraciocco, and if you don’t know her, read THE TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HER.
Keep up with the directors from Palermo by following Antonio Piazza on Twitter.
While in real life and in the movies women can be very bad to each other, we women would be in big trouble without our great girlfriends like these.
Gilda the prostitute from Giorgia Farina’s ‘Amiche Da Morire‘ didn’t even realize what a true friend she could be until she was forced into it, but I’d love a friend like her. Fearless, funny, and determined, if I ever have a dead body to dispose of, I hope I have somebody like her around. Gilda is played by Claudia Gerini, who would also be a fun friend to have.
Last girlfriend on the right, Gilda, played by Claudia Gerini
In Cristina Comencini’s ‘Latin Lover’, Rita, played by the late Virna Lisi, is the girlfriend I’d most like to be. Having lived a life that was privileged and yet full of heartbreak, Rita appreciates what she has and doesn’t look back.
Rita’s (Virna Lisi) got life figured out.
Paola Cortellesi seems like the bestest best friend a girl could have on-screen or off. After all, everybody loves Claudia – Tu la conosci? In Tu La Conosci Claudia with Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, Claudia is determined to be her best self and help humanity by being a best friend.
Tu La Conosci Claudia – Paola Cortellesi
In Scusate Se Esisto she’s Serena, best friends with a gay guy played by Raoul Bova, but she stands up for her girls at work and takes on “the man” on their behalf.
I’d take a cross-country jewel hunt with Bruna, (Isabella Ragonese) like the one in La Sedia Della Felicità any day.
It would be useful to have a friend like Danielle (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) from Roberto Andò’s ‘Viva La Libertà’, someone who would let you hide out at her house when you want to lie low for a while.
And Maria (Gabriella Pession) from L’Uomo Perfetto may steal your boyfriend and never let you pick the restaurant you are going to, but she’s still pretty fun, and in the end she’s going to want the best for you.
She probably won’t be doing girly spa days or shopping trips with you, at least at first, but Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) from Laura Bispuri’s Vergine Giurata, would be for sure a fiercely loyal friend.
The best for last, I want to be friends with Rosalba and Grazia, Licia Maglietta and Marina Massironi. I know you are just fictional characters, but can I please sit on the couch with you girls and watch old movies just like you did in Pane E Tulipani.
Rosalba and Grazia had each others’ backs.
Here are your new Bond girls played by Monica Bellucci and Léa Seydoux in the new James Bond film.
“In SPECTRE, the two women who Bond hooks up with, both have great mystery,” says director Sam Mendes. “They both have depths and for that you need fantastic actresses.”
“She’s an Italian widow with secrets,” says Bellucci of her character.
SPECTRE is set for release in the UK on October 26, 2015, and in the US on November 6, 2015.
Don’t Mess With This Rebellious Spirit
Journalist Sara Faillaci had once showed up unannounced and without an appointment at Alba Rohrwacher’s mom’s farm house in Umbria looking to find out if the Rohrwachers were anything like the family in Le Meraviglie (The Wonders), so when she met Alba for a scheduled interview at Venice last year, the actress was not in the best of moods.
“You’re the one that went to my house”, Rohwacher asked Faillaci.
“Yes.”
“Is it true that you showed up there without any warning?” she asked, narrowing her eyes.
“Yes”.
“When I found out about that I was pretty mad.”
But in the end, Alba admitted liking the interview she’d done with her mom, and said that her home life had been well described, so she didn’t storm out.
Failaci asked Rohrwacher asked about her relationship with her sister, Alice, the director, and her parents: “I was always a rebellious spirit, and I wasn’t looking for shortcuts. I dealt with them in a direct, almost violent way. My sister Alice was more likely to go along, but sooner or later the chickens come home to roost. The clashes that I had as a teenager, she had them later.
For more about Italy’s top actress, READ THE VANITY FAIR INTERVIEW.
Read my interview with Rohrwacher and Vergine Giurata director Laura Bispuri.
And check out her fashion shoot.
She’s beautiful, talented, very sweet, and she’s the NEXT BIG THING, so help me wish Greta Scarano a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I met her at last year’s Venice Film Festival at the debut of the sensational Senza Nessuna Pietà, directed by her boyfriend Michele Alhaique and also starring Pierfrancesco Favino and Adriano Giannini.
In it, Greta plays “Tanya” a young prostitute who has delivered to a by Mimmo (Favino), but he sees that she’s in trouble and comes to her rescue.
There’s a “beauty and the beast” quality to Mimmo and Tanya’s love story, as Tanya begins to care for him and then literally cares for him when he is punished for going against the family. They are an odd couple, but the chemistry is there and when they meet, you can see the relief in their eyes. In their “hard-knock lives, they’d never considered that they might find someone who actually want the best for them.
In the soon to be released (October 14) Suburra, Greta stars again with Favino, and also Elio Germano in a story about Rome and the plans to develop the Roman water-front into a new Las Vegas. “Suburra” was the part of ancient Rome where all the criminals hung out and powerful people met with them.
Tanti Auguri Greta, you are the “GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED”.
Ciak Magazine and editor Piera Detassis (@PieraDetassis) have published their 2015 Power List and I am not on it.
Si Accettono Miracoli
Checco Zalone didn’t make a movie this year so in the #1 spot, Alessandro Siani. His comedy Si Accettano Miracoli made 15 and a half million euro and I’m not going to lie, I haven’t watched it yet (but I guess I’ll have to now.) His previous film, Il Principe Abusivo was not horrible; in fact, that’s what I titled my review. Il Principe Abusive: It’s Not Horrible. I don’t get why this guy is so very successful, but then again I don’t get why anyone goes to see an Adam Sandler movie either.
The rest of the top 10:
#2 Paolo Sorrentino, of course.
Paolo Sorrentino
#3 Mario Martone, who did so well with Un Giovane Favoloso starring Elio Germano.
Mario Martone,
#4 Checco Zalone, the biggest box office draw in Italian cinema history.
Everybody loves Checco.
#5 Ficcara and Picone, a comedy team that once again, I don’t get.
Ficcarra and Picone
#6 Elio Germano, an actor that deserves every possible accolade.
Elio Germano, Il Giovane Favoloso
#7 Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, a comedy trio that is a sentimental favorite of mine but pretty silly and slapstick.
Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, hilarious in La Banda Dei Babbi Natale
#8 Christian De Sica. Say what? Um, OK. I guess cinepanettone is more popular than I realized.
Christian De Sica
#9 Alessandro Gassman, is the son of Vittorio, but is making his own name in films like I Nostri Ragazzi, Il Nome Del Figlio, and Se Dio Vuole.
Luca Miniero
#10 Luca Miniero, the director of Benvenuti al Sud’s films have been much weaker ever since (like La Scuola Più Bella Del Mondo); never-the-less he’s in the top 10!
Paola Cortellesi is always on my list.
Notice all the testosterone on this list? There are only 6 women in the top 50 and 4 are producers, 2 actresses, Paola Cortellesi and Margherita Buy. A big congratulations to Olivia Musini (producer of Anime Nere) for making the list.
Margherita Buy, with more Best Actress awards than Sophia Loren.
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Coppa Volpi to Valeria Golino – Best Actress
for Per Amor Vostro
Per Amor Vostro
What to get film news straight from the horse’s mouth? Follow the stars and directors on Twitter.
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And if you can’t wait for Incompresa (Misunderstood) to hit American theaters, you’ll want to follow:
This girl is on fire.
“What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.” Asia Argento
Tanti auguri Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento, Asia Argento, as we know you. Daughter of Dario Argento, the Horror/Giallo king, Asia is her own girl, acting, singing, modeling and now, directing, and though growing up with her father’s slasher scripts as bedtime stories and acting in them at a young age may not have been ideal, she’s seems to have got it all in perspective now.
Her award-winning film InCompresa (Misunderstood) was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and it will open in the USA next week, September 26. Misunderstood stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, is the story of a nine-year-old misfit, and is no doubt an attempt to portray her own “misunderstood” youth.
