FLORENCE, ITALY – Nanni Moretti’s new film, Tre Piani, will be among the contenders for the Palme d’Or at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, organisers announced on June 3.
The film, is an adaptation of Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo’s novel Three Floors Up. The cast includes Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Giannini, Elena Lietti, Alessandro Sperduti, Denise Tantucci, Nanni Moretti, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Graziosi, Stefano Dionisi and Tommaso Ragno.
Giovanni “Nanni” Moretti, born 19 August 1953, is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His work, characterized by an ironic and sarcastic vision of the clichés and problems of the new world of the time, with a critique of Italian society.
The 67-year-old Italian director and actor won the 2001 Palme d’Or with The Son’s Room and he was the president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
The 2021 Cannes Film Festival takes place July 6-17.
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