Angelina Jolie waiting on the red carpet of the Rome Film Festival. And James Franco enchants: «I like shooting here»

Confirmation was expected, it arrived. Angelina Jolie will also be there among the guests of the 20th edition of the Rome Film Festival, waiting on the film’s red carpet Couture by Alice Winocour next Saturday. She plays an American director, in Paris to shoot a video during fashion week, where she receives the news of a breast cancer diagnosis. Next to her Louis Garrell.

Hunting for autographs

As tradition, there will be many international stars to crowd the places of the Festival and Alice in the City. The first one showed up yesterday, James Francoamong the protagonists of Sharksthe first work by Daniele Barberio, who experienced Alice in the City, arriving in theaters on October 23rd. It is his second Italian film after that Hey Joe directed by Claudio Giovannesi – today they will be together for a masterclass open to the public -, he seems to have taken a liking to it.

«I like shooting here – he confirmed -, the sets are different from the American ones, it’s a bit like for a musician to change instruments”. He acts partly in Italian and partly in English, in the role of a big tech entrepreneur hunting for start-ups, who has set his sights on the app created by a 19-year-old boy, Lorenzo Zurzolo.

I autograph and selfie hunters they will have the opportunity to get busy, provided they move beyond theMusic Park Auditoriumgiven that between Festa and Alice, the appointments involve different places in the city. The catalog of Italian actors and actresses is endless, between now and October 26th almost everyone will respond to the call.

Cult couples

Among the international stars the presence of is confirmed Jennifer Lawrenceprotagonist of Die my love by the British director Lynne Ramsay in which she stars alongside the former teen idol, now on her way to auteur cinema, Robert Pattinson.

An appointment for cinephiles, but not only that, also the one with the most surprising couple, father and son: Daniel e Ronan Day-Lewistogether as co-writers as well as star and director of Anemone. They will animate the masterclass scheduled for Saturday at the Conciliazione Auditorium.

Another cult couple, the one formed by the Palme d’Or director Jafar Panahi and Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore. The latter will present the lifetime achievement award to his Iranian colleague, while the public will be able to see a preview of the Italian release A simple accident which will certainly be one of the hot titles of the next edition of the Oscars. Among the expected directors Richard Linklater, Ari Aster e Carla Simonwhile ours Matilda De Angelis will stand out among the cast of the new version of Dracula signed by Luc Besson, between Christoph Waltz and Caleb Landry Jones.

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