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

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.