ROMAN POLANSKI`s `VENUS IN FUR` STARRING EMMANUELLE

ROMAN POLANSKI's 'VENUS IN FUR' STARRING EMMANUELLE SEIGNER OPENED THE 2013 ISCHIA GL
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3:54 AM PDT 6/11/2013 by Eric J. Lyman
Roman Polanski's 'Venus in Fur' to Open Italy's Ischia Global Fest
Polanski will be given the Ischia Legend Award in absentia, with the festival also set to
honor Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Best Offer."
ROME – Roman Polanski's La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur), which earned accolades in
competition in Cannes this year, will open next month's Ischia Global Film & Music Fest, where
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ROMAN POLANSKI's 'VENUS IN FUR' STARRING EMMANUELLE SEIGNER OPENED THE 2013 ISCHIA GLO
Polanski will be given -- in absentia -- the Ischia Legend Award, the festival's highest honor,
organizers announced Tuesday.
Earlier, the festival announced it would honor The Best Offer from Oscar winnerGiuseppe
Tornatore as Film of the Year. The comedy, which stars Geoffrey Rushas a quirky art
auctioneer obsessed with an heiress-collector, is garnering plenty of interest in Italy, earning a
dozen David di Donatello nominations, including Best Film and Best Director, and three Nastri
D'Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations, including Best Director and Best Screenplay.
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The Best Offer is being hyped in Italy as a possible Oscar contender, though if that pans out it
would have to be in one of the mainstream categories, since its predominantly English-language
script makes it ineligible for the Best Foreign Language Film category, which Tornatore won in
1990 for Cinema Paradiso.
Ischia also said it would honor Valeria Golino, whose sophomore directorial effort Miele (Honey)
won a special mention out of the Un Certain Regard sidebar in Cannes as Breakout Director of
the Year. Golino, a 46-year-old native of Naples, is an established actress with credits that
include BarryLevinson's Rain Man, in which she played the female lead opposite Dustin
Hoffman and Tom Cruise, and JulieTaymor's Frida Kahlo biopic Frida, in which she
playedGuadalupe Marin, the second wife of Kahlo's husband Diego Rivera. Miele is her feature
film debut as a director, followingArmandino e il Madre, which won a Nastri D'Argento prize as
Best New Short Film two years ago.
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Meanwhile, the acclaimed La Vénus à la fourrure from Polanski -- himself an Oscar winner for
The Pianist, a decade ago -- will get the festival started July 14. The film recounts the story of
an aspiring actress, played by Emmanuelle Seigner, seeking to convince a film director she
should be in his next film. The Ischia screening will be the Italian premiere.
The festival previously announced that, in addition to Polanski, it would present Ischia Legend
Awards to actors Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, as well celebrate film producer Arnon
Milchan. All three are expected to be on hand to receive the honors.
The eight-day event, which takes place on the idyllic island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples,
concludes July 21.
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(ANSA) - ROMA, 11 GIU - Sara' ' 'Venere in pelliccia' di Roman Polansky ad aprire il 14 luglio
l'XIesima edizione dell'Ischia Global Film & Music fest dedicata alla Francia e al grande regista
polacco il Legend Award. Il film che ha conquistato il pubblico di Cannes anche per le
straordinaria interpretazione di Emmanuelle Seigner e Mathieu Amalric sara' proiettato in
versione originale sul grande schermo : l'uscita in Italia, prima ancora che in Francia e nel
mondo, con 01 Distribution e' prevista per 31 ottobre.
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Photo: Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton, Pascal Vicedomini, Joel Schumacher and Emmanuelle
Seigner
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