Performance shot in 1977, in which emblematic actor Carmelo Bene, in the charming reconstruction of the ruins of a theater on fire accompanied by the disturbing notes of Vittorio Gelmetti, reads four ...

The last time Italian filmmaker and humorist Franco Maresco was in competition at Venice, with his Cosa Nostra-baiting 2019 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rome-based sales outfit True Colours has picked up Italian director Franco Maresco’s Bravo Bene! (Un Film Fatto Per Bene), which will premiere in Venice’s main competition in September.

One of Italy’s most acclaimed and best loved actors, Carmelo Bene, whose groundbreaking stage productions earned him a place in the history books of Italian theater, died Saturday March 16 in Rome of ...