1st Look: Poster for Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Unknown

Continuing along with our day of first looks at U.S. poster one sheets for Italian films, we have a look at a film that almost made it into the final five noms for Oscar’s foreign film category (it was in a top 8 contention befoe being cut down to five). His beloved Cinema Paradiso is one reason why The Unknown (La Sconosciuta) had the upper hand and made it that far – but Giuseppe Tornatore’s latest has benefited global kudos including a string of Italian Oscar (David di Donatello) awards. Outsider Pictures is releasing the film same time next month.

Irena (Xenia Rappoport), an emigrant who fled Eastern
Europe and has moved to a Northern Italian city. She lives amidst ghosts of the
past and a search for the present, two planes of time that make up an intriguing
puzzle. Who is Irena really? Little by little, her story unfolds. She easily
fell prey to ruthless, unscrupulous men and was subjected to unspeakable
brutalities and humiliations, the kind that can never be put to rest. Only one
beautiful memory remains for Irena, a melancholic, heartrending lost love. The
mysterious woman seems to have a very precise motive when she tries to find work
as a cleaning lady…