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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #94. Paolo Taviani’s Leonora Addio

Published on January 6, 2022

Leonora Addio

With production wrapping up in late 2020 we were thinking that a release sometime last year was in the cards – but there’s no need rushing the nonagenarian as Paolo Taviani’s Leonora Addio is now dated with a February domestic release in Italy and this could possibly mean that he’d get an invite to the same fest that welcomed his last film in Caesar Must Die. This is a long-gestating project that that was intended to directed alongside his brother.

Gist: Inspired a short story by great Italian playwright and author Luigi Pirandello, this is the tale of three surreal Pirandello funerals intertwined with the murder of a young Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn for what is described as a surreal, grotesque, complex narrative.

Release Date/Prediction: While we’re hoping for a Berlinale premiere timed for the Italian release is in the cards — and perhaps Tribeca is in the cards as well.

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).