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Diamonds Costume designers Betsy Heimann and Deborah Nadoolman Landis will participate in a Q&A after the 7:00 PM show on May 23 at the Royal.
Diamonds
The film runs for 135 minutes, but the script is so breathless it never feels draggy and Özpetek gets excellent results with his stacked cast.
Diamonds
Present day: A film director (Özpetek, playing himself) has invited his favourite actresses over for lunch to help him develop his next work. He doesn’t reveal much, but asks them to read over a script. He observes them, collecting reactions and suggestions, and assigns parts, transporting them all into another era…
1974: sisters Alberta (Luisa Ranieri) and Gabriella (Jasmine Trinca) – as different as they are close - head up Sartoria Canova, a prestigious atelier in the Testaccio neighbourhood, specialising in film and theatre; we follow as they and the virtuoso dressmakers they employ are tasked by a renowned but irritable director (Stefano Accorsi) with creating wardrobes for an 18th Century historical epic, including a spectacular dress needed for the picture’s concluding scene. Outside and within the studio, passions, anxieties and unbreakable bonds intertwine as the line between reality and fiction begins to blur…
1974: sisters Alberta (Luisa Ranieri) and Gabriella (Jasmine Trinca) – as different as they are close - head up Sartoria Canova, a prestigious atelier in the Testaccio neighbourhood, specialising in film and theatre; we follow as they and the virtuoso dressmakers they employ are tasked by a renowned but irritable director (Stefano Accorsi) with creating wardrobes for an 18th Century historical epic, including a spectacular dress needed for the picture’s concluding scene. Outside and within the studio, passions, anxieties and unbreakable bonds intertwine as the line between reality and fiction begins to blur…
Genre
Psychological Drama,
Drama,
Auteur Cinema
Web Site
Runtime
135
Language
Italian
Director
Ferzan Ozpetek
Producer
Marco Belardi,
Tilde Corsi
Writer(s)
Elisa Casseri,
Carlotta Corradi,
Ferzan Ozpetek
Cast
Luisa Ranieri,
Jasmine Trinca,
Sara Bosi,
Loredana Cannata
Opening at
Royal on May 22nd