\tThe Locarno Film Festival has set Alpine elegy movie \u201cFiore Mio\u201d (\u201cA Flower of Mine\u201d) as its pre-opening event. It marks the first film written and directed by bestselling Italian novelist Paolo Cognetti (\u201cThe Eight Mountains\u201d), who also stars. \tBesides writing \u201cEight Mountains,\u201d Cognetti was also \u201con set\u201d when Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch shot the film adaptation of his book, which won the\u00a0Cannes Jury Prize in 2022. \tIn \u201cFlower of Mine,\u201d Cognetti returns to similar Alpine settings, bringing along \u201cEight Mountains\u201d cinematographer\u00a0Ruben Impens as his DP. The film depicts the Alpine landscapes and glaciers that are destined to disappear\u00a0or change forever due to the climate crisis. \t \tCognetti was moved to make the doc when a drought during the summer of 2022 caused the spring near his home in Estoul \u2014 a small village located 1,700 meters above sea level overlooking the Brusson Alpine valley \u2014 to dry up. His stated narrative model is the well-known \u201c36 Views of Mount Fuji\u201d series of Japanese woodblock prints by\u00a0Hokusai\u00a0Katsushika. Similarly, \u201cFlower of Mine\u201d continuously changes points of view in \u201cdescribing the [mountain] life that flows at various levels,\u201d according to promotional materials. \t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \t \u201cFlower of Mine\u201d will pre-open Locarno on Aug. 6 as a special event screening on the Swiss fest\u2019s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande. \tThe doc \u2014 produced by Samarcanda Film, Nexo Studios, Harald House and\u00a0EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani with support from the Film Commission\u00a0Vall\u00e9e d\u2019Aoste \u2014 will go out in Italian cinemas via Nexo on Nov.\u00a025, 26 and 27. \tNexo, which produces and distributes theatrical event content for the international market, is also handling the global distribution of \u201cFlower of Mine.\u201d \tThe 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which is Europe\u2019s preeminent\u00a0indie cinema event,\u00a0will run Aug. 7-17. \tWatch the trailer for \u201cFlower of Mine\u201d below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Locarno Film Festival has set Alpine elegy movie \u201cFiore Mio\u201d (\u201cA Flower of Mine\u201d) as its pre-opening event. It marks the first film written and directed by bestselling Italian novelist Paolo Cognetti (\u201cThe Eight Mountains\u201d), who also stars. Besides writing \u201cEight Mountains,\u201d Cognetti was also \u201con set\u201d when Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieetv.com\/ita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}