EXCLUSIVE: In his remaining undertaking earlier than concluding his headline-snatching, decades-long tenure as artistic director at Valentino, Pier Paolo Piccioli dipped again into movie manufacturing to supply the costumes for Things And Other Things, the newest function from Italian filmmaker Riccardo Vannuccini.
The indie UK-Italian co-production stars Greta Bellamacina. The costumes for Bellamacina’s character had been designed by Pierre Paolo for Valentino, together with a customized blue gown with a 6-metre prepare made for the movie. You may try a primary have a look at the movie and Pierre Paolo’s costumes beneath.
Paolo Piccioli left Valentino in March after greater than 20 years on the home. The designer joined Valentino in 1999 with Maria Grazia Chiuri, his former collaborator. The pair had been appointed co-creative administrators in 2008. In 2016, Piccioli took on the position of sole artistic director, following Chiuri’s departure for Dior. Issues And Different Issues isn’t Paolo Piccioli’s first foray into cinema. In 2019, the Italian designer teamed up with Challengers filmmaker Luca Guadagnino for the short film The Staggering Girl, starring Julianne Moore, Kyle MacLachlan, and Mia Goth. The movie featured couture seems by Paolo Piccioli and premiered within the Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar on the 2019 Cannes Movie Competition. The quick was scored by the legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Issues And Different Issues can also be Vannuccini and Bellamacina’s newest collaboration following 2023’s Commedia. Issues and Different Issues re-visits Commedia’s characters of Irene (Bellamacina) and Rocco (Vannuccini) however finds them let loose and wandering, at play, in a haunting post-industrial landscape- shot on location within the plains of Tuscany. The areas embrace deserted buildings, a abandoned theme park, a farmhouse, a slaughterhouse, and an deserted faculty.
The forged is rounded out by Maria Sandrelli, Alessandra Piscopo, Alba Bartolia, and Gabriele Guerra. Issues and Different Issues is Vanuccini’s second script in each Italian and English. The unique soundtrack is by the Italian composer Pietro Freddi. Director of Pictures is Manolo Cinti (Così parlò De Crescenzo, Commedia). The movie is co-produced by Artestudio in Rome and Sulk Youth within the UK.
Discussing the undertaking with us this morning, Vanuccini described Issues And Different Issues as a continuation of his final undertaking in addition to an exploration of how “something can occur.”
“Impossibility is known as attainable and the lack of time as time is taken away from the day by day, from replication, from spectacle, from cinema,” he mentioned. “Our heroes have managed to mysteriously escape from the place they had been – however the place had been they? They’re busy doing nothing, making small acts, to depart imaginative traces of their passage, imagined indicators of being on the planet. Scratches, noises, silences, poses, runs, drinks, wounds, escapes, kisses, stealing. The world they inhabit is our personal post-industrial panorama, a world scarred by the business and disappointment of the 20 th century, however in it they discover magnificence, and so they create magnificence. They’re the archetypal romantic runaways.”
Try the primary look stills from the movie and Paolo Piccioli’s costumes beneath.
Artestudio and Sulk Youth.
Artestudio and Sulk Youth.
