THE Berlin Film Festival has been and gone, Glasgow has just closed the doors on another record-breaking year for ticket sales, Cannes is on the way in May and Edinburgh in June.
Just time to pause for the quick but potent espresso that is the Italian Film Festival, curated by Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe, which runs from March 7-27 at venues across Scotland.
Wrapped around a focus on Fellini - including screenings of a restored Roma and Ettore Scola's documentary tribute to the filmmaking legend - are acclaimed dramas, comedies and thrillers. Among the highlights: Toni Servillo, star of the now Oscar-winning A Great Beauty, takes the lead again in the scalpel-sharp political satire Long Live Liberty; the decades-spanning drama The Fifth Wheel delivers a portrait of a family and a nation; Salvo is a slow-burn thriller about an ice-cool hitman for the Mob who finds himself thrown when a job goes wrong; and Margherita Buy plays a hotel inspector taking a long, hard look at her own well-cushioned existence in A Five Star Life. The festival covers the Glasgow Film Theatre; Filmhouse, Edinburgh; the Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy; Eden Court, Inverness; and DCA, Dundee. For more information about times and locations, visit www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk, or the venues listed.
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