Taormina, Italy -- The Taormina Film Festival on Monday bowed to Italy's passion for soccer, temporarily suspending the festival Monday during the Italian side's opening-round World Cup match against Paraguay and screening several films related to the sport.
The threat of rain prevented the game from screening at the festival's famous Teatro Antico venue, but a standing-room-only crowd filled Taormina's main indoor venue to watch the Italian side open its World Cup defense with a 1-1 tie. The festival used the game's intermission to show highlights from some of the soccer-themed films at the festival, and to conduct a short interview with Barry Hilton, the comic star of "Finding Lenny," the South Africa-set film that screened after the match.
"Lenny," Monday's nightcap, tells the lighthearted story of how the main character, amid a period of personal turmoil, uses soccer to pull his life together while also helping settle an unlikely land dispute.
The threat of rain prevented the game from screening at the festival's famous Teatro Antico venue, but a standing-room-only crowd filled Taormina's main indoor venue to watch the Italian side open its World Cup defense with a 1-1 tie. The festival used the game's intermission to show highlights from some of the soccer-themed films at the festival, and to conduct a short interview with Barry Hilton, the comic star of "Finding Lenny," the South Africa-set film that screened after the match.
"Lenny," Monday's nightcap, tells the lighthearted story of how the main character, amid a period of personal turmoil, uses soccer to pull his life together while also helping settle an unlikely land dispute.
- 6/14/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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