Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #84. Gli Indifferenti – Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli

Gli Indifferenti

It’s been well over a decade since a filmmaker has attempted an new adaptation of Italian author Alberto Moravia, whose novels provided the basis for such classics as De Sica’s Two Women (1960), Godard’s Contempt (1963) and Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), among many others. For his third feature, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli remounts Moravia’s The Time of Indifference, assembling a formidable cast with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Giovanna Mezzorgiorno, Edoardo Pesce (Dogman, 2018), Beatrice Granno and Vincenzo Crea. The title is produced by Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib and Daniel Campos Pavoncelli with Gian Filippo Corticelli (favored DP of Ferzan Ozpetek) lensing. Seràgnoli’s 2014 debut Last Summer premiered at the Rome Film Festival and his 2018 sophomore title Likemeback competed in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present program.

Gist: Notably, Francesco Maselli adapted Moravia’s 1929 novel The Time of Indifference in 1964, starring Claudia Cardinale, Paulette Goddard, Rod Steiger and Shelley Winters and a 1988 television film version from Mauro Bolognini featured Liv Ullmann and Peter Fonda. Seràgnoli updates the anti-Fascist novel for 2019 to focus on a high society Rome family whose social status is disrupted by a financial crisis.

Release Date/Prediction: The six-week shoot began in September, 2019. Based on the source material and the cast, Seràgnoli could compete for the Golden Leopard in Locarno 2020.