Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman. The boy’s mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman in pre world war II Fascist Italy. Living to each other in Florence, and presided over by an ambassador’s widow, a group of Englishwomen [...]
Bernardo Bertolucci filmed the scenes of Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola) in the summer of 2005 between Florence and Siena, in splendid unforgettable locations. Some of the scenes were filmed in Villa di Geggiano, in the Chianti territory (Siena) Today the Villa the proprietors produce a very appreciated Chianti and offer their spaces for [...]
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy of 1993 written and filmed by Kenneth Branagh. The comedy is freely inspired by the omonimous Shakespearian piece and mantain its location in Messina (Sicily, Italy) but was interely filmed in Greve in Chianti by the beautiful Villa Vignamaggio, in the Siena territory. Villa vignamaggio produces extra virgin [...]
Hoffmann filmed his Midsummer’s Night Dream in Montepulciano. Chiappa: Kevin Kline Titania: Michelle Pfeiffer Oberon: Rupert Everett Puck: Stanley Tucci Elena: Calista Flockart Ermia: Anna Friel Demetrio: Christian Bale Lisandro: Domicic West Teseo: DavidStraithairn Ippolita: Sophie Marceau
Walk around the square and the main road of Pienza and look for the places where Zeffirelli filmed his beautiful “Romeo and Juliet”, already in year 1968. The film won two Oscar (best costumes and best photography) and three Golden Globe (best foreign film, best female promise, best male promise)
At Sant’Anna in Camprena, a former Olivetan Benedictine monastery from the 15th century – only 6 kilometers away from Pienza, the Italian-American director Anthony Minghella shot some of the most famous scenes of his movie The English patient, nominated for 9 academy awards. Now the monastery is an agriturismo: in the monastery’s refectory the visitors [...]
Do you remember the beautiful scenes of the Gladiator, when he imagines the Elysian Fields? It is the Orcia Valley, Tuscany, Italy. The Orcia Valley is always wonderful and continuously changing: you find it like in the movie, with golden cornfields, normally in june, when the grain is ripe in the fields but not yet [...]
