For Italian actor and director Valeria Golino, it was a dream come true to play feminist writer Goliarda Sapienza in Mario Martone’s Cannes competition title “Fuori.” Golino was in Cannes last year as ...

Mario Martone‘s Cannes Film Festival Competition title Fuori had its world premiere Tuesday night at the Lumière Theater, earning a 7 1/2–minute ovation. From a script by Ippolita Di Majo and Martone, ...

Literary biopics are hard to pull off, and even harder to market (1995’s Total Eclipse missed a trick with “Leonardo DiCaprio IS Arthur Rimbaud!”). Even well-known U.S. writers tend to be the domain ...

If you weren’t aware of who she is, the writer Goliarda Sapienza had a fascinating life. An Italian actress and author who gained widespread acclaim for her novel, “L’arte della gioia,” only after she ...

Italian auteur Mario Martone, who last competed for the Cannes Palm d’Or in 2022 with “Nostalgia,” will soon be back on the Croisette with “Fuori” a drama set in 1980 Rome that depicts a specific ...

Cineuropa: How was the idea for Fuori born? Mario Martone: It has been a long journey. It was my co-writer Ippolita Di Majo who suggested the idea of working on Goliarda Sapienza, whose books she had ...

Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959; Naples) is an Italian film/theatre director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film "Troubling Love" (1995) was entered into the ...