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Article: HOPES HIGH AT CANNES FOR ITALIAN FILMS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 9, 1987
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CANNES - Hopes are high at this year's Cannes Film Festival
for a resurgence of Italian films. Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola
and the Taviani Brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, will unveil new films
next week. Yesterday Francesco Rosi opened strongly with his film
version of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold," the short novel that
won a Nobel Prize for Gabriel Garcia Marquez. To make the film,
Rosi journeyed to its setting, a moldering village in Colombia,
where the real-life incident that the drama is based on occurred in
1950. Rosi uses the incident -- the stabbing death of a young man
by the brother of a woman he slept with and thereby rendered unfit
for marriage -- as a departure point for ...