The Rome Film Festival will fete Johnny Depp with its Lifetime Achievement award and display screen the actor’s newest directorial effort, Modi – Three Days on the Wings of Insanity throughout its 2024 version.
Described as a “seventy-two-hour whirlwind within the lifetime of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani”, the movie follows the artists by a chaotic sequence of occasions by the streets of war-torn Paris in 1916. French actress Antonia Desplat and Riccardo Scamarcio spherical out the forged.
The synopsis reads: On the run from the police, his want to finish his profession and depart the town is dismissed by fellow artists Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine, and Modi’s muse, Beatrice Hastings. Modi seeks recommendation from his artwork seller and pal, Leopold Zborowski — nonetheless, after an evening of hallucinations, the chaos in Modi’s thoughts reaches a crescendo when confronted with an American collector, Maurice Gangnat, who has the ability to alter his life.
Modi heads to Rome following a debut screening at San Sebastian.
Viggo Mortensen can even obtain a Lifetime Achievement award at this 12 months’s Rome Movie Competition. Mortensen will display screen The Useless Don’t Damage on the pageant. A narrative of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier within the 1860s, The Useless Don’t Damage facilities on Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps), a fiercely impartial lady who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holgen Olsen (Mortensen). After assembly Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to journey with him to his dwelling close to the quiet city of Elk Flats, Nevada, the place they begin a life collectively. The outbreak of the Civil Warfare separates them when Olsen makes a fateful determination to battle for the Union.
The version of the Rome Movie Competition will run from October 16-27.
