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Plot: A limited series inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

Review: Guilty or innocent, few things are as damning as public opinion. With media latching on to every juicy crime story for tabloid fodder, the true crime genre has been chock full of stories, few of which have been as massive as the trial of Amanda Knox. Chronicling her arrest in 2007 for the murder of her roommate in Italy through developments from the last few years, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is the first comprehensive look at the criminal investigation and subsequent legal battles. With Knox aboard as producer, the series stars Grace Van Patten as the college student turned media darling whose judgment was passed not only by Italian courts but the entire world. Providing a...

Late into “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox,” the eight-part Hulu limited series recounting the aftermath of the 2007 murder of British study-abroad student Meredith Kercher in Italy, a supporting character makes a valid point.

Speaking many years after the murder, he notes that the case is still identified primarily as the “Amanda Knox” case, even though Knox, Kercher’s American roommate in Perugia, Italy, was acquitted of killing Kercher in 2015 after a yearslong odyssey that included four years in custody.

His observation makes a viewer presume the show will finally get to the part where it tells us more about Kercher, whose brief life story, as Knox herself has said in real life, was obscured by the sensational, yearslong legal battles of Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian boyfriend arrested alongside Knox.

But that part never comes, and its absence mars this mostly engaging and well-acted limited series anchored by...

La misma Amanda Knox ejerce de productora ejecutiva. © Disney+

Disney+ ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de su miniserie original Amanda Knox: una historia retorcida, creada por K.J. Steinberg (This Is Us).

Amanda Knox: una historia retorcida está inspirada en el caso real de la joven estadounidense que fue condenada injustamente por el trágico asesinato de su compañera de piso, Meredith Kercher, y su lucha por demostrar su inocencia.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies) como Amanda Knox. La acompañan en el reparto Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico y Roberta Mattei. En un principio, Margaret Qualley (La sustancia) estuvo vinculada al personaje de Knox, pero abandonó el proyecto por conflictos de agenda.

El caso ha sido objeto de múltiples relatos. La propia Knox ha publicado dos libros autobiográficos, fue el centro de un documental en Netflix en...

We’re getting the first look at footage of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, Hulu’s upcoming limited series starring Grace Van Patten as the wrongfully accused killer.

“In 2007, I was halfway around the world, studying abroad in Italy,” Knox says in a voiceover as she arrives home to her apartment to find her roommate dead. “I had no idea that my dream was about to become a nightmare.”

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is inspired by the true story of Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free. The series traces Amanda’s relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

The trailer begins with Knox explaining her decision to return to Italy. “Why would I return to a...

Amanda Knox’s wild true story is getting the scripted docudrama treatment.

Hulu has released a trailer for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, starring Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies) as the accused killer, premiering Wednesday, Aug. 20 with the first two episodes. In the trailer — which you can watch below — Amanda’s parents sneak her back into Italy as she narrates, “Why would I return to a country where I was convicted of murder? Because in order to move forward, I need to go back.”

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"Does the truth exist if no one believes it?" Unfortunately, a good question these days... Hulu has debuted the official trailer for their next true crime series out this summer titled The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. This is a fictional cinematic version of the entire story of American Amanda Knox, who was wrongly imprisoned for murder in Italy. Everyone knows her story as it was big in the media for many years - after being acquitted, Knox also wrote her memoir titled "Waiting to Be Heard" then Netflix released a doc about her called simply Amanda Knox. "Inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free." Grace Van Patten stars in this series created by "This Is Us" writer Kj Steinberg. The cast also features Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli,...

The trailer for the upcoming Hulu limited series The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox has just been released!

Tell Me Lies actress Grace Van Patten stars in the titular role of Amanda Knox, who was accused of murdering her roommate in Italy.

Keep reading to find out more and watch the trailer…

Here’s a synopsis: The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox follows the eponymous American college student, who arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. The series traces Amanda’s relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

Also starring in the series are Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico and Roberta Mattei.

Amanda Knox, herself, and Monica Lewinski are among the executive producers.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is set to debut on Wednesday,...

Amanda Knox is looking to break free from the one thing that defines her — but first, as the actress playing her says in the trailer, she has to go back.

“Many people think they know my story. But now, finally, it’s my turn to tell it,” says Grace Van Patten in the role of Knox for Hulu’s forthcoming limited series The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.

In the first footage (below), the Tell Me Lies star makes her debut as Knox for the series that also boasts Knox as a producer behind the scenes, along with Monica Lewinsky.

The scripted series, inspired by actual events, spans 15 years to cover the time from Knox’s infamous murder accusation in Perugia, Italy, up to modern day. The trailer asks if the truth exists if no one believes it, and sees Van Patten saying, “For 15 years, I’ve been defined by...

Amanda Knox becomes an easy target in the official trailer for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, the upcoming limited series from Hulu. Set to premiere on Aug. 20, the show recounts a dramatized version of the murder trial Knox faced in which she was wrongfully convicted following the death of her roommate, Meredith Kercher.

In the trailer, Grace Van Patten stars as Knox during her days as a bright-eyed student studying abroad in Italy. She learns quickly that her studies didn’t prepare her to be intensely interrogated by authorities in Italian.

Hulu has revealed the official trailer and key art for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. The limited series premieres Wednesday, August 20, with two episodes. New episodes stream on Wednesdays on Hulu and the series finale on October 1.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

The series follows the eponymous American college student, who arrives in Italy for her study abroad, only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. The series traces Amanda’s relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom, and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

The series stars Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies), Sharon Horgan (Best Interests), John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox...

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"Many people think they know my story, but now it's my turn to tell it..." Hulu has revealed a quick teaser for their next crime series coming up this summer titled The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. Another true crime series, this is a fictional version of the story of American Amanda Knox who was imprisoned for murder in Italy. Everyone knows her story as it was big in the media for many years - after being acquitted, Knox also wrote a memoir titled "Waiting to Be Heard" then Netflix released a doc about her called simply Amanda Knox. "Inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free." Grace Van Patten stars in this series created by "This Is Us" writer Kj Steinberg. The cast also features Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker,...

The teaser trailer for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox sees Grace Van Patten as Amanda Knox, fighting for her life.

The series is based on Knox’s harrowing journey to prove her innocence and regain her freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for her roommate’s murder. Knox, a Seattle native, was studying abroad in Italy at the time. After being initially convicted for murder in 2007, she was later acquitted by Italy’s highest court in 2015.

“Many people think they know my story, but now it’s my turn to tell it,” Van Patten’s Knox can be heard saying in the footage (below), which debuted during game five of the NBA Finals on Monday.

“A limited series inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free,” the show’s logline reads.

“Vermiglio” will soon be streaming stateside. Maura Delpero’s Italian epic is set to debut on the Criterion Channel May 20, IndieWire can announce. The film will be later released on Blu-ray & DVD from Janus Contemporaries August 26.

“Vermiglio” is set in a remote Alpine village, where a strict schoolteacher’s (Tommaso Ragno) family is rocked by the appearance of a mysterious Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico) who is fleeing the front lines of World War II. The family’s three very different daughters each find their lives transformed by the soldier’s presence across one year. Per the official synopsis, as the “four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the teacher, are instantly drawn to each other leading to an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from tragedy, the family will face its own.” Roberta Rovelli, Anna Thaler, and Rachele Potrich also star.

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Exclusive: Rebecca Wisocky (Ghosts), Joe Lanza (The Americans) and Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale) are set for key recurring roles opposite Grace Van Patten and Sharon Horgan in Hulu‘s Amanda Knox limited series.

Amanda is based on the true story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

Wisocky will play Cecilia, an American in prison who moves into Amanda’s (Van Patten) cell to take care of her. Lanza portrays Chris Mellas, Amanda’s stepdad who found love later in life with Edda (Horgan) and is a strong presence in Amanda’s life.

Fitzgerald will play Madison, Amanda’s best friend who always speaks her mind.

John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico and Roberta Mattei also star.

Amanda, created by Kj Steinberg, hails from 20th Television in association with The Littlefield Company. Steinberg executive produces alongside Warren Littlefield,...

The title of Maura Delpero’s second feature refers to a small Italian Alpine village. There is talk of war amongst the community, but at first it’s hard to place which war is being referred to. It’s actually 1944 and the war has taken most of the young men away, but this community seems entrenched in a distant past. The women are all kitted out in long skirts, there are few signs of electricity or motorised transport, the schoolchildren recite the Lord’s prayer in Latin, illiteracy among the adults reigns.

One of the village elders is Cesare Graziadei (Tommaso Ragno) and the story revolves around him and his increasingly large family. The film opens with the simplicity of the family’s rigorous morning routine, with chores being performed, milk going from cow to cup and each member getting an equal share. A sense of complete togetherness is implied.

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In the remote mountain town of Vermiglio, Italy, a Sicilian World War II deserter dramatically affects the lives of a teacher's family who shelters him. Writer/director Maura Delpero crafts a sublime exploration of secrets, lies, and patriarchal dominance within a devout and insular social order. Vermiglio, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and Italy's submission for Best International Film at the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, is largely seen through the eyes of innocent children as they try to comprehend the seismic events happening around them. The film's magnificent cinematography and score aid a glacial pace that builds steam to a sobering and deeply emotional climax.

In 1944, the Graziadei family huddles together in their various bedrooms to thwart the cold. The white-haired Cesare, the town's respected teacher, lies beside his wife Adele and their infant son, the parents' ninth child. The plot primarily revolves around their three daughters,...

Maura Delpero’s gorgeous historical drama “Vermiglio” may take place amidst the backdrop of World War II, but the existentialist themes that it examines are relevant to any era in which a culture is faced with a moment of change. Evolution does not mean the extinction of old ideas, but societal values tend to change when the next generation decides to reshape the values that were passed down by their predecessors. There are weighty themes like this at the center of “Vermiglio,” but what is most outstanding is that they are all filtered through the specificity of an intimate family drama. There aren’t any heroes or villains in “Vermiglio.” Delpero makes the case that even the most bitter of familial conflicts can be waged with compassion in mind.

At the center of “Vermiglio” is Cesare (Tomasso Ragno), a stern school teacher who takes it upon himself to maintain the...

Vermiglio is one of those great films that's hard to fully capture in writing, because it is and does so many things. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival (essentially second place) and is gaining steam as Italy's submission to the Oscars, which paints one picture. It's an indie box office hit in its own country, which paints another. It's artful, atmospheric, and observant; a slice-of-life film told in a hushed tone. It's dedicated to recreating a specific time and place and dropping us into it. There's a gentle steadiness to the way it moves.

Set in post-World War II Italy, Vermiglio explores the transformative journey of three sisters living in a small mountain village, prompted by the arrival of a soldier. The film chronicles their personal growth and the evolution of their relationships amidst the backdrop of a changing world.

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Vermiglio’s images are keyed to the simplicity of that kind of domesticity. Here, children tend to the cows before the milk is warmed over the stove for breakfast. Cesare Graziadei (Tommaso Ragno), the titular village’s school teacher, reads the paper devotedly for news from the Italian front as his seven children play and do their daily chores, while his wife, Adele (Roberta Rovelli), dutifully—and, it seems, happily—goes about her duties at home with tender devotion.

Maura Delpero’s lushly told, moving mountainside World War II epic “Vermiglio” kept a low profile at the 2024 Venice Film Festival as one of a handful of Italian films in the competition. To some’s surprise — only because most eyes were on quote-unquote buzzier films like “The Brutalist” and “Babygirl” and “Queer” — this story of a repressed rural community upended by the arrival of a handsome stranger (Giuseppe De Domenico) won the Silver Lion prize, second only to the Golden Lion, from the jury led by Isabelle Huppert. Now, “Vermiglio” represents Italy in the 2025 Best International Feature Film Oscar race — and should land a spot on next week’s shortlist after nods from the Gothams and Golden Globes.

“I was happy when they nominated the [Venice] jury because of Isabelle, but also because of the other members,” Delpero told IndieWire of the filmmaker-heavy jury that included James Gray, Agnieszka Holland, Andrew Haigh,...

After receiving a nomination at the 82nd annual Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language, Janus Films has released the trailer for Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio.”

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Written and directed by Delpero, the film stars Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, and Martina Scrinzi. It received critical acclaim during its respective festival runs at Venice and Toronto and is Italy’s Official Submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

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"Men who come back from war. They have secrets." Janus Films has revealed the official US trailer for an acclaimed Italian film called Vermiglio, which is also the name of the town (which is real) the film takes place in. This premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where it won the second place Jury Prize, a major award right after the Golden Lion. 1944, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life. Vermiglio shows the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era - set right at the end of WWII. "Conjuring stories from her own family's past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neo-realist movement in Italian cinema, but through...

Writer/director Maura Delpero is capturing love in the time of World War II.

Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” which is the official Italian entry for Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars, is set in 1944 Italy in the eponymous mountain village high up in the Italian Alps. As war looms as a distant but constant threat, the arrival of deserted soldier Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico) disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s (Tommaso Ragno) family forever.

Per the official synopsis, as the “four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the teacher, are instantly drawn to each other leading to an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from tragedy, the family will face its own.”

Roberta Rovelli, Anna Thaler, and Rachele Potrich also star.

“Vermiglio” premiered at 2024 Venice, and was recently nominated in the Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language category at the Golden Globes.

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Grace Van Patten is hard at work on her new Hulu series!

The 27-year-old Tell Me Lies actress and Italian actor Giuseppe De Domenico filmed scenes for their upcoming Amanda Knox limited series on Friday (November 15) near the coast in Olevano Romano, Italy.

In the upcoming series, Grace is portraying Amanda Knox while Giuseppe, 31, is playing Knox‘s then-boyfriend Giuseppe De Domenico.

Grace was at first seen wearing a blue sweater and white skirt for a few scenes before changing into a green hoodie and jeans for another set of scenes.

Also seen on set was Monica Lewinsky, who is serving as a producer alongside the real Amanda Knox.

The project is described as being “based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.”

This Emmy-nominated star was originally cast as Knox,...

How many stories of Amanda Knox do we really need? At least one more, according to Hulu, whose new eight-part series Blue Moon has begun filming in Italy, sparking backlash from the residents of Perugia, where Meredith Kercher was found murdered back in 2007. A 20-year-old Knox and her then-lover, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of killing Knox's roommate 17 years ago, and subsequently spent four years in an Italian prison before their release in 2011 due to shoddy police work. She was later acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015, and has since gone on to become an author and activist.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, residents of Perugia have shown up in full force to the production, displaying banners that read "Rispetto per Meredith," which translates to "Respect for Meredith." The dramatization stars Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies), and will air on Hulu next year, with Knox now 37 on board as an executive producer.

Hulu’s Amanda Knox series is causing an uproar in the Italian city of Perugia, where the show – executive produced by Knox herself – has been filming 17 years after the murder of Meredith Kercher.

The arrival of the show’s cast and crew last week in the university town, where Knox’s British roommate was found dead in their room on Nov. 2, 2007, has prompted angry locals to put up banners that read “Rispetto per Meredith” (“Respect for Meredith”). The outcry has led the city’s mayor, Vittoria Ferdinandi, to issue a letter of apology to Perugia citizens, which was published in Italian newspapers.

“We could have not authorized the filming of five scenes in Perugia,” the Perugia mayor said in the letter, “but they would have been filmed in any other town in our region.”

She continued: “We believed that allowing [the scenes] to be filmed here would provide us an element of...

Spend some time in the mountains in Italy. An official trailer is out for the Italian film called Vermiglio, set during the end of World War II in the mountains in Italy. This first premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where it won the second place Grand Jury Prize, and was described by critics as a Terence Malick-esque tale of Italians in the mountains. It just played at the Montclair & London Film Festivals, and will also screen at Berlin's Around the World in 14 Films Festival next this winter before a US release at the end of December this year. Set in 1944, in Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life there. Starring Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba,...

Vermiglio is set in the eponymous alpine village during the waning days of WWII. Maura Delpero’s film, gorgeously shot by Leviathan cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, is a slow-moving fable that unfolds as a novelistic series of pastoral tableaus. The short chapters evoke Balzacian poetic realism and recall the sensual textures of last year’s The Taste of Things. But unlike that film, which exuded autumnal warmth and celebrated pleasure––therefore freedom––Vermiglio‘s stark, wintery beauty comes at the price of its characters’ desires. The painterly frames physically constrain subjects, especially women who suffer pointedly under the social restrictions of this time and place.

Its story meanders through the village but centers on a family of nine, especially the patriarch Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) and his daughters Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), Ada (Rachele Potrich), and Flavia (Anna Thaler). The central plot follows the courtship of Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), a traumatized army deserter,...

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Edward Berger’s latest Conclave and Brady Corbet’s much-talked-about epic The Brutalist are among the titles that have been added to this year’s Camerimage Film Festival lineup.

Joining those titles is Vermiglio by Maura Delpero. Vermiglio debuted at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Brutalist also had its debut bow at the Italian festival while Conclave premiered at Telluride.

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Exclusive: Sideshow and Janus Films have set a December 25 U.S. theatrical release date for Venice Silver Lion winner Vermiglio. The drama from writer, director and producer Maura Delpero is also Italy’s submission to the Best International Feature Film Oscar category. Delpero is the first woman to represent the country in 19 years.

A portrait of a sprawling family, Vermiglio is set in 1944, in the titular high-mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), a taciturn Sicilian soldier who hides out in town after deserting the army, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. He develops a romance with the eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), which ends up having unforeseen consequences for everyone. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.

Also starring are Tommaso Ragno and Roberta Rovelli.

The Amanda Knox limited series at Hulu has added four new cast members, Variety has learned.

Currently titled “Amanda,” the series has added John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei.

The quartet join previously announced series lead Grace Van Patten as well as Sharon Horgan, who will play Knox’s mother Edda Mellas.

Hoogenakker will play Curt Knox, described as “Amanda Knox’s fun-loving but stoic father who, despite his divorce from her mother, is a great dad to his daughters. He leads the charge to defend his daughter in the press.” Acquaroli stars as Giuliano Mignini, “the Italian prosecutor in Amanda Knox’s case. A man with a need to prove himself, he’s convinced of Amanda’s involvement in the murder from the jump, and he finds his life and legacy defined by his relationship to her.”

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Italy has selected “Vermiglio” as the country’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. The movie written and directed by Maura Delpero won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and will make its stateside debut at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 10.

“Vermiglio” is set in 1944, in Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.

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The Oscars international feature film race got another strong competitor on Tuesday when Italy announced it would submit “Vermiglio” as its entry for the 97th Academy Awards. Written and directed by Maura Delpero, the film won the Silver Lion in Venice earlier this month.

Delpero’s drama is set in 1944 in the alpine village of the film’s title. When a young Sicilian soldier named Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico) comes to town, his presence, according to the synopsis provided by Sideshow and Janus Films, “disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons marking the end of World War II, Pietro and Lucia, the eldest daughter of the teacher, instantly drawn to each other, led to marriage and an unexpected fate. As the world emerges from its tragedy, the family will face its own.”

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Italy will send Maura Delpero’s World War 2 drama Vermiglio into the 2025 Oscar race for Best International Feature.

Vermiglio premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it scooped up the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired domestic rights for the movie shortly after its North American premiere in Toronto.

Set in 1944 in the eponymous village of Vermiglio, high in the Italian Alps, the film follows a local family whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of a refugee soldier from the faraway conflict. As the world emerges from the tragedy and destruction of WW2, the family in Vermiglio faces its own crisis. The ensemble cast includes Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, and Carlotta Gamba

A follow-up to Delpero’s well-received 2019 directorial debut Maternal, Vermiglio is loosely based on the director’s own family history. She produced the feature together with Carole Baraton,...

Sideshow and Janus Films have snapped up North American rights to Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s Italian drama that won the Silver Lion at Venice and screened at Toronto earlier this week.

The companies said they planned to release the feature theatrically in the coming months. The deal was struck with US firm Anonymous Content and Paris-based Charades, which co-represent the North American rights to the film.

‘Vermiglio’: Venice Review

Written, directed and produced by Delpero, the film is set in the remote mountain village of Vermiglio in 1944 where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro,...

The setting for Maura Delpero’s second feature is a sleepy wartime village in the Italian Alps, but the languid nature of the film is so soporific it borders on anesthetizing; indeed when the credits finally roll, it might be worth checking yourself for scars and other signs of organ harvesting. Technically, it is a marvel of period filmmaking, an immersive view of la vida rustica so bursting with authenticity that it may inspire more enthusiastic viewers to put on a folk hat and get a job in a heritage museum working the spinning jenny. Others may not be so gripped by its drawn-out drama; box-office blockbuster material it is not.

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The year is 1944, and the war in Europe is still in bloom, with no end in sight. The center of Vermiglio,...

World War II is raging across Europe, but there’s no gunfire in the mountainous village of Vermiglio. There, life goes on much as it has for hundreds of years, albeit with some subtle adjustments, in Italian writer-director Maura Delpero’s considered if conventional second feature.

Inspired in part by the director’s own family history, Venice competitor Vermiglio tracks how global and local events shape the lives of the large Delpero family, a brood who have a fraction more status in the community because the clan patriarch Caesar (Tammaso Ragno) is the local schoolmaster. However, the arrival of Pietro (Giuseppe de Domenico), a Sicilian veteran who takes a shine to Caesar’s daughter Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), will have deep repercussions.

A superabundance of subplots create a certain torpor even though the film is only a scant two hours long. Still, the portrait of a nearly vanished rural way of life remains compelling,...

With head bowed, over clasped hands, Italian director Maura Delpero’s quietly breathtaking “Vermiglio” unfolds from tiny tactile details of furnishings and fabrics and the hide of a dairy cow, into a momentous vision of everyday rural existence in the high Italian Alps. Far away, the Second World War is ending — an earthshaking event felt here only in abstract ways, because there’s the real labor of community and family to be getting on with, to say nothing of the private work of finding your own path to tread beneath those towering peaks. To those who live on their slopes, the mountains must be the beginning and end of everything, the amen on every prayer.

It is winter and a sleeping household, with two or three to a bed, gradually stirs. The eldest daughter Lucia (Martina Scrinzi) milks the cow, dreamily resting her face, which she has apparently stolen from a Vermeer painting,...

Maura Delpero’s second feature “Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride” – which is being presented at the Venice Production Bridge, the industry program of the Venice Film Festival, this week – has tapped Giuseppe De Domenico as its lead.

The Italian actor, known for “Zero Zero Zero” and Prime Video’s “Bang Bang Baby,” will play Pietro, a young soldier who in 1944 arrives in a small mountain village in Trentino, northern Italy.

As declared by the film’s tagline, change is around the corner: “Last year of World War II. In the Italian Alps, a single rifle shot ends a young woman’s innocence.”

“Maura saw many young actors and some of them were very good, but Giuseppe was able to stand out thanks to his subtle acting style. He understood what it meant to come back from a war,” says Francesca Andreoli, who produces for Italy’s Cinedora.

Roberta Rovelli in Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,...

Producer Lorenzo Mieli, who has brought to the screen top Italian TV series such as “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend,” is launching two new crime shows with innovative elements: “The King” and “Bang Bang Baby.”

Both stem from his bent to push boundaries of genre storytelling that is “borne from authenticity,” he says.

“The King,” which is Italy’s first prison drama, recently bowed positively in Italy on Comcast-owned Sky’s pay-tv service and also premiered internationally at the Series Mania fest.

The dark show stars Luca Zingaretti, best known as the titular character in Italy’s widely exported “Inspector Montalbano” series. He plays Bruno Testori the sometimes psychopathic director of a maximum security penitentiary located on an unspecified Italian border territory that is not subject to Italian law. There Testori, who is a mixture of good and evil, can apply his totally personal idea of justice.

The fifth edition will see the TV festival return to its original springtime slot to run alongside MipTV.

French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).

The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.

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"ZeroZeroZero" is the new 'drug crime' TV series based on the global cocaine trade bestseller by Roberto Saviano, starring Gabriel Byrne, Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Giuseppe De Domenico and Harold Torres, streaming on Amazon's Prime Video March 6, 2020:

"...the series follows the journey of a cocaine shipment, from the moment a powerful cartel of Italian criminals decides to buy it in South America until the cargo is delivered and paid for en route to Europe..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "ZeroZeroZero"...

Look through cocaine and you’ll see the world… according to the first trailer for drug drama ZeroZeroZero from the team behind Gomorrah.

Sky, Canal+ and Amazon Prime have unveiled the trailer for the eight-part series, which will have its world premiere as a Special Event Out of Competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival on September 5.

The series, produced by Cattleya and Bartlebyfilm, is based on the book by Gomorrah scribe Roberto Saviano. Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan and Gabryel Byrne star in the series, directed by Stefano Sollima, that looks at international cocaine trafficking and its economic and political effects.

The drama will chart family dynamics, Mexican cartels, the ‘Ndrangheta (the Calabrian mafia) and corrupt businessmen. The stellar line up of directors also includes Pablo Trapero (The Clan) and Janus Metz (True Detective). After concluding the first weeks of shooting in New Orleans, principal photography moves on to Mexico...

The team behind hit Euro crime-drama Gomorrah are underway on new series ZeroZeroZero, which will star Andrea Riseborough (Battle Of The Sexes) — as we broke last month — Dane DeHaan (Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets) and Gabryel Byrne (The Usual Suspects). The Cattleya epic for Sky, Canal+ and Amazon will shoot in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Wolof and Arabic for a whopping eight months in six countries.

Gomorrah director Stefano Sollima is helming the adaptation of the book by Gomorrah scribe Roberto Saviano about international cocaine trafficking and its economic and political effects. The plot will chart family dynamics, Mexican cartels, the ‘Ndrangheta (the Calabrian mafia) and corrupt businessmen. The stellar line up of directors also includes Pablo Trapero (The Clan) and Janus Metz (True Detective). After concluding the first weeks of shooting in New Orleans, principal photography moves on to Mexico and then to Italy and Africa.