Italian film actress Asia Argento, one of the first of dozens of women to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, issued a harsh warning to possible predators at the Cannes Film Festival's closing ceremony Saturday.
Asia Argento,
an Italian film actress and director, claimed that Weinstein «forcibly performed oral sex on her» but alleged that she refused to speak out because «he has crushed a lot of people».
Not exact matches
It follows weeks of speculation about the couple
Italian model and
actress Monica Bellucci usually limits her work to
Italian films.
In the former
film, she appeared as the quiet, capable love interest of Tony Shalhoub's struggling
Italian chef, while the latter featured the
actress in the minor but poignant role of a painfully - awkward schoolteacher who is seduced by John Travolta's libidinous Presidential candidate.
That cycle was started when
Italian actress Monica Vitti, known for her brooding
films with Michelangelo Antonioni («L'Aventurra,» «L'Eclisse»), exquisitely took up the mantle of popular British comic strip heroine «Modesty Blaise» (1966), a pop art masterpiece (or train wreck, take your pick), which makes up a double feature with Jane Fonda's turn as «Barbarella» (1968), based on a French comic strip, on Thursday, May 17, at the Castro Theatre.
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Filming Locations Then Vs. Now.
The competition panel will be headed by French
film composer Alexandra Desplat, and includes Chinese
actress / director Joan Chen, German director Philip Groning, Austrian director Jessica Hausner, Indian Writer Jhumpa Lahiri, British costume designer Sandy Powell, British actor Tim Roth, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, and
Italian director and author Carlo Verdone.
The Horizon jury is headed by Ann Hui, with Israeli
actress Moran Atias, Swedish
actress and director Pernilla August, American director and writer David Chase (The Sopranos), Chad director Mahamat - Saleh Haroun,
Italian director Roberto Minervini and Turkish
film critic Alin Tasciyan.
The
film centers on Jill McBain (
Italian Tunisian
actress Claudia Cardinale), a young bride from New Orleans.
Margherita Buy, My Mother — Given how difficult it is to market foreign
films in the US these days, it's unlikely Buy will get any Oscar love, but she has already won David di Donatello and
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best
Actress awards for her performance in Nanni Moretti's autobiographical drama.
The
actresses do all they can with stock parts in a
film that affords no
actress any worthwhile moments; Eastwood «s camera leers at the bodies of
Italian and Dutch backpackers and partygoers with the eye of a dirty old - man cut loose in a Euro - disco.
Italian actress Nadir Caselli is a special guest of the Lavazza
Italian Film Festival this year, visiting Australia to introduce her
films — the ensemble romantic comedy «University: More Than Friends» and the comedy «I Can Quit Whenever I Want».