Pierfrancesco Favino, who plays Maria Callas’ protective butler in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” doesn’t back down from a fight, on-screen or in life. At last year’s Venice Film Festival, the Rome native ...
The official Comandante trailer for the upcoming World War II drama has been released, featuring acclaimed Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino as submarine commander Salvatore Todaro. The film has been ...
“What was interesting to me was this relationship with his mother and the tenderness of this man and how gentle he is. It’s quite rare to see a man’s masculinity portrayed in that way,” Favino told a ...
French multi-hyphenate Amanda Sthers (“Holy Lands”) has recruited the U.K.’s Kelly Reilly, Italy’s Pierfrancesco Favino and France’s Jean Reno for English-language romantic drama “Promises,” set in ...
Tennis has been having a center-court moment at the movies lately, and Andrea di Stefano’s enjoyably raffish “My Tennis Maestro” officially makes it a trend. More specifically, it has been stories of ...
For decades, Italian filmmakers dominated Cannes. If the 1960s saw Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti reign supreme, somehow the 1970s were even richer. Elio Petri and ...
Favino will head the Orizzonti jury that will focus on trendsetting new films, while the jury Kapur heads will award a $100,000 prize to the best debut film in any Venice official selection. By Eric J ...
Pierfrancesco Favino is best known internationally for strong male character roles such as mobster Tommaso Buscetta in The Traitor, disgraced politician Bettino Craxi in Hammamet and ...