Product Description
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A swirl of pop-art color, madcap magic, and the bittersweet call
of life and love suddenly take the mature, ravishing,
self-reliant Agata by storm.
Review
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NOMINATED - 8 Awards - David Di Donatello Awards (Italian
Os®)
Official Selection - Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection - Sao Paulo Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection - Norwegian Int'l Film Festival
Official Selection - Italian Film Festival ----
…A feast for the senses! ---Variety
Silvio Soldini's film [Agata and the Storm] is full of life and
loveable characters that are well-worth seeing. ---DVDTalk
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About the Actor
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Licia Maglietta: Born in Nes, Licia Maglietta trained in
theatre and dance. She also graduated with a degree in
Architecture. In 1981 she joined the group Falso Movimento which
later founded the Teatri Uniti. Maglietta was nominated for the
David di Donatllo Award (Italy's Academy Award). She has starred
in two other films directed by Silvio Soldini, Bread and Tulips,
for which she won the David Award and Le Acrobate.
Giuseppe Battiston: Guiseppe Battison is the winner of the David
di DOnatello (Italian Academy Award) for best supporting actor
for Silvio Soldini's Bread and Tulips. His other film credits
include: I Ragazzi Della Via Pal, La Forza Del Passato, Un Aldo
Qualunque and Nemmeno in Sogno. In 2005 Guiseppe starred in La
Tigre Neve directed by Roberto Benigini and starring Jean Reno,
Tom Waits and The Republic of Love star Emilia Fox. Guiseppe
Battison's latest film is La Fine del Mare.
About the Director
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Silvio Soldini made Paesaggio con Figure, his first
medium-length film in 16mm, in 1983. This film and Giula in
Ottobre were awarded at various national and international
festivals. In 1984 Soldini formed his own production company,
Monogatari, with his closest collaborators. With VOCI CELATE in
1985, Soldini also began making documentaries. In 1989 he
his first feature, L'Aria Serena Dell'Ovest, which was extremely
well received by the public. The film, presented in competition
at the Locarno Festival, won the Grolla d'Oro for Best Screenplay
at Saint-Vincent, the Grand-Prix at the Annecy Festival, and the
Best Actress award for Patrizia Piccinini at La Boule. L'Aria
Serena Dell'Ovest was invited for screening at numerous
international festivals (Montreal, Rotterdam, New Directors New
Films, among others).
The year 1993 marked the making of Un'Anima Divisa in Due, which
received the Grolla d oro for Best Director at Saint-Vincent, and
was presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival. At that
time, Fabrizio Bentivoglio also won Best Actor for his
performance. Soldini directed Le Acrobate in 1997, selected in
competition at the Locarno Festival and the San Francisco
International Film Festival, and awarded at Rencontres
Internationales de Cinéma in Paris. In Saint-Vincent, the film
also received the Grolla d'Oro for Valeria Golino.
In 2000, Soldini made Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips), a film
that consecrated his rank as an international director. It was a
tremendous critical and box office success. Indeed, the film was
sold in countries all the world from Japan to Australia with
sweeping popularity in Switzerland (the film's grosses placed it
an all-time second in the entire history of Swiss cinema), as
well as in Germany, Argentina, Brazil and the United States. The
film won 9 David di Donatello awards, 5 Nastri d Argento awards,
9 Ciak d oro awards, the Premio Flaiano, and received 3
nominations to the European Academy Awards.
In 2004, Silvio Soldini directed Agata e La Tempesta (Agata and
the Storm) with Licia Maglietta and Giuseppe Battiston. After
Bread and Tulips, this was a return to comedy, bursting with
vivid characters, colors, and an atmosphere and mood that was
less fable-like and more surreal. In 2006, Silvio Soldini
directed Brucio nel Vento (Burning in the Wind), based on the
novel Ieri by Agota Kristof, and in French Switzerland and
the Czech Republic. Presented in competition at the Berlin
Festival, the film received eight nominations to the David di
Donatello, and won the award for Best Film at the International
Festival Film by the Sea in Vlissingen, Holland.
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