'LA FORTUNA' SERIES
FINDS ITS HERO AND VILLAIN
Alejandro Amenabar's first television series to be produced by Spanish Movistar+ and American AMC LA FORTUNA has found its lead in Spanish actor Alvaro Mel with Stanley Tucci set to play the main villain. A small screen adaptation of Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic
novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the series will follow young diplomat Alex Ventura (Mel) who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild (Tucci), who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
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| Alvaro Mel and Stanley Tucci will take the lead roles in the six episode series |
1ST 'MISS MARX'
PHOTOS WITH ROMOLA GARAI
Over in Italy they are crazy enough to plan the real physical edition of Venice Film Festival in the time when all other festivals have been cancelled, and one of the films that will compete for the main prize is MISS MARX, a period set drama by Susanna Nicchiarelli. Today you can check out first
two photos from the film about bright, intelligent, passionate and free Eleanor (Romola Garai), Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the
workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labour. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy) and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story. John Gordon Sinclair plays Friedrich Engels with Philip Groning as Marx himself.
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| Romola Garai plays the title role in Miss Marx |
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| Patrick Kennedy will play her love interest Edward Aveling |
Why the hell would they be holding a real film festival right now? Will they be whining next month when half the attendees end up with Covid?
ReplyDeleteBecause they are irresponsible. Even if the pandemics was weakened, Italy is still the mothership of the virus and I don't think anyone should travel there any time soon, and besides, who needs a glam festival in a country where tens of thousands were buried dead this spring???
DeleteI thought the same thing as Theresa. Why in the world would they thin that holding a film festival is a good idea right now. Good grief.
ReplyDeleteEspecially in Italy out of all countries! People are crazy. Our tennis player Novak Djokovic, world's number one, also thought he was smart when he organized Adria Tour here at the Balkans, it ended up with a number of players and guests and their family members contracting corona alongside Novak and his wife themselves. Some people just have too big heads...
DeleteI just saw Stanley Tucci in a Monk rerun the other night and I got all excited. While I'm a fan of all his work, The Devil Wears Prada is one that never gets old. :)
ReplyDeleteHe was really nice in it, especially as he is a very dandy gent in his private life as well, actually so much that I've always thought he was gay, but I think he has a wife :)
DeleteOooh, I always thought he was gay too. Well, cheers to his wife then. She's a lucky lady as I am sure he treats her very well.
DeleteHe likes to cook.
DeleteMaybe I can trade his wife and let her have Jason for a bit. That man can't cook for shit. I need a Stanley to make me a meal for a change. How lovely would that be!?
DeleteLovely indeed, I haven't had a meal that I did not prepare myself in a decade or so probably....
DeleteThe girls have made me breakfast in bed for Mother's Day the past few years, but a real homemade dinner is not something I ever get. Jason will offer to go to a local restaurant and buy me a meal to bring home, but that's just lazy. It would be nice if he'd make a pasta dish or soup. Those aren't even hard :(
DeleteBut if he is simply not talented for cooking and clueless about it than it is as if he would ask you to fix your cars once in a while LOL It is nice that he at least brings home meals sometimes, I'd like that. You should train the girls to cook for you at least once a week, I remember that Ally used to do that before.
DeleteShe still does, but I have to supervise and help out a lot here and there, so it's not really her cooking for the family but me helping her cook. I guess I can't complain too much about Jason though because once in a while he will make me an omelette (of course, if he was already making one for himself first), but in my next life, I am marrying a chef.
DeleteIn my next life I'm gonna be a millionaire with my own private chef, baker, pastry maker and a harem of course..
DeleteWell, you better invite me over to enjoy some of this too then LOL
DeleteOf course!
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