Carolina Cavalli returns to the Venice Movie Pageant along with her second function “The Kidnapping of Arabella,” following her debut “Amanda,” which performed there in 2022. The brand new movie, which stars Benedetta Porcaroli and co-stars Chris Pine and Lucrezia Guglielmino, debuts its first clip right here.
“The Kidnapping of Arabella,” which has its world premiere in Horizons, follows 28-year-old Italian lady Holly. She has at all times felt just like the improper model of herself and that her life hasn’t turned out as anticipated. When she meets slightly woman named Arabella, she turns into satisfied the kid is her youthful self. Wanting to run away from dwelling, Arabella decides to play together with Holly’s mission: to return and turn into somebody particular.
In an announcement, Cavalli stated: “The story of ‘The Kidnapping of Arabella’ isn’t actually a couple of kidnapping within the normal sense, regardless of what the title suggests. It’s largely a couple of woman discovering her personal strategy to repair the previous, make peace with regrets, quiet anxiousness concerning the future, and let go of unmet expectations.
“The principle character, Holly, belongs to a gaggle of individuals—or maybe a era—afraid that life is at all times occurring elsewhere. Like after we had been youngsters, imagining a thousand potential lives, even when we’d most likely solely stay one. However considering like that as adults devalues actuality; it distracts from the actual world, its that means, its magnificence, its injustices, and our personal position in all of it.
“Though ‘The Kidnapping of Arabella’ feels considerably like a comedy, it started with critical reflections I discovered on Reddit and different on-line boards, in addition to on a regular basis emotions of my very own. That’s why I wrote this story—it appeared like one thing many individuals may relate to, or a minimum of acknowledge.”
The movie is produced by Antonio Celsi and Annamaria Morelli for Elsinore Movie, and Massimiliano Orfei, Luisa Borella and Davide Novelli for Piperfilm. It’s a manufacturing by Elsinore Movie, The House and Piperfilm in collaboration with Tenderstories. Worldwide gross sales are being dealt with by Piperfilm and Charades.
Cavalli co-wrote “Fremont” (2023) with director Babak Jalali, which premiered at Sundance. She was nominated for the British Impartial Movie Awards and received the Impartial Spirit Award within the John Cassavetes class.
