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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #163. Nanni Moretti’s Il Sol Dell’Avvenire

Published on January 9, 2023

Il Sol Dell’Avvenire

Nanni Moretti makes a quicker-than-usual return behind the camera – waiting very little time in-between projects. Following 2021’s Three Floors, the veteran filmmaker shot Il Sol Dell’Avvenire in the early summer in Rome. The dramedy sees Mathieu Amalric, Margherita Buy, Barbora Bobulova, Silvio Orlando and Moretti himself in a set between the 1950s and the 1970s tale amid the city’s circus world. We got some recent cool outtakes on Nanni’s IG account.

Gist: This is a period piece set in Rome between the 1950s and the 1970s amid the city’s circus world, but will also involve the world of cinema.

Release Date/Prediction: Nanni Moretti is a regular invited guest for the Palme d’Or comp in Cannes – but this might show out of competition. The film’s Italian domestic release date will confirm if this is indeed headed to Cannes.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).