Catherine Deneuve is working on a film set in Paris. She sounds a bit annoyed on the phone. She hesitates and asks how I got her phone number. She is suspicious. "It’s not possible. If you want to do an interview, talk to my press office." Before she hangs up, I am...
Actress Mia Farrow is in Venice for the first time as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She looks rejuvenated. Her hair is long and loose and she’s wearing an antique pink t-shirt, black pants and sandals. Accompanying her is her son Seamus, the child she had with...
Amira Casar regularly comes to Salzburg for the Festival. This year the actress has just been performing at the Festival d’Avignon. Soon she has to be back in Paris where she starts a new role in Versailles, a television series about the life of the young Louis XIV....
Isabelle Huppert is petite. She practically tiptoes into a salon of the Hotel de la Ville in Rome, wearing grey pants, a beige pullover and a red scarf around her neck. Her hair hangs long and loose. It is a reddish brown, and her eyes are large and brown. She seems...
Alberto Barbera, you have been Director of the Venice Film Festival twice, from 1999 to 2001 and now since 2012. What has changed in the film industry during that time? A great deal, much more than one would imagine. The digital revolution has transformed the film...
Dennis Hopper (1936 - 2010), a director and first and foremost an actor, is in Salzburg in October 2000 to show some of his works of art. Showing art is rather a different experience. Are you satisfied? Yes. I sold two of my works for the first time, including a...
Sophia Loren is the most famous Italian actress in the world. On September 3rd, 1994, the eve of her sixtieth birthday, she confessed her passions, her memories, and her projects to Alain. We publish them again here today to celebrate Valentine's Day, 2014. Alain...
Fanny Ardant: The Ultimate Diva A short interview from the archive with the actress and director Fanny Ardant, who speaks fluent French, Italian and Spanish and learned English while filming Callas Forever (2002). She is a really passionate reader, as was her former...
Whenever I read Alberto Moravia's interviews, suddenly he comes back into my life as if he was still alive. Alberto’s brief answers, his judgements about people, artists, ideas. He really was very unusual, special in his way of thinking. In his answers he was always...
Inspired by silent movies, Isabella Rossellini has made a series of funny films for the internet under the titles of Green Porno and Mammas. She has developed Green Porno into a new art form, a one woman stage show that she has taken round the world and is currently...
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Money Must Stay in the Family
The plot of Money Must Stay in the Family, unfolds around the family matriarch’s last will and traces the story of an upper class Jewish family from Turin, the fictional Ottolenghis. The multigenerational saga begins with the flight from Mussolini’s Racial Laws of 1938 and continues with the arrival in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the dispersion from New York to Rome, Paris, Tuscany, South America, and Jerusalem.
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