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Oriana

L'Oriana
Australian Premiere

CAST

  • Vittoria Puccini
  • Vinicio Marchioni
  • Stéphane Freiss
Italy | 2014 | 110 mins
Biopic
An excellent and profound biopic.
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DIRECTOR Marco Turco

An Italian film director and screenwriter who hold degrees for both History and Philosophy, Marco Turco has written for L'Unità and Movie Magazine, as well as directing several shorts and documentaries. He made his feature film debut in 1998 with Lives on Hold (Vite in sospeso) and in 2006 he won an Italian Golden Globe for Best Documentary for In Another Country (In un altro paese).

Italian Golden Globe-winning director Marco Turco brings the life of the famous and determined Italian journalist and author Oriana Fallaci into focus in this fascinating biopic which follows the uncompromising reporter on assignments around the world.

In one of her last trips back to Italy, Oriana (played by a breathtaking Vittoria Puccini) decides to re-organise her journalistic and photographic materials stored for years in the old family home in the Tuscan countryside. She enlists the help of an aspiring journalism student named Lisa who accepts the job to get better acquainted with Oriana, whom she considers an idol. While going through the archival materials, Oriana’s memories and long-forgotten emotions come flooding back, revealing her changeable work and personal life. From the Vietnam War on one side of the world, to Pakistan, to Iran, the journalist recounts details to Lisa, and gradually, a complex relationship ensues between the two.

*NOT SCREENING IN HOBART OR BYRON

  • Official Selection
    • Canada Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2015 - Highlight
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

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