ROME, April 12 (Xinhua) — Italy’s Far East Film Festival introduced Tuesday its 2022 version would kick off with the brand new romantic comedy “The Italian Recipe,” an Italy-China co-production with a largely Chinese solid.
The movie, which is loosely based mostly on the 1953 traditional movie “Roman Holiday,” tells the story of a Chinese actuality tv star visiting Rome who falls for a Chinese girl already dwelling within the Italian capital.
“The Italian Recipe,” collectively produced in Italy and China, is the primary feature-length movie from Beijing-born director Hou Zuxin. Most of the movie’s dialogue is in Mandarin Chinese.
The twenty fourth version of the pageant, which is held within the northern Italian metropolis of Udine, will happen on April 22-30, with “The Italian Recipe” the primary screening for the occasion.
All advised, the pageant will present 72 movies picked from greater than 400 nominations. The pageant will embody reside audiences for the primary time since 2019, although 28 picks may even be out there on-line.
Huang Yao, the feminine lead in “The Italian Recipe,” is already recognized to some followers of Chinese cinema for her starring position within the movie “The Crossing” (Guo chun tian).
