Gianni Amelio’s “Lord of the Ants”, a biopic of Italian poet and playwright Aldo Braibanti, who was imprisoned in 1968 over an anti-gay law in the Fascist era, reached the top of the Italian box office after its release from Venice. Film Festival.
On Monday, “Ants” hit numero uno position at the domestic box office with 483,474 euros ($487,000) from more than 300 screens after its September 8 release. Although this result is far from stellar in normal times, it is being hailed as an encouraging sign for the theatrical sector still in decline after the pandemic in the country.
Amelio is now ahead of the Japanese anime “Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo”, which was released as a three-day Monday event, and “Minions: The Rise of Gru” finally ending its run, after outing 18 Italian August.
“After receiving an excellent reception at the Venice Film Festival, Gianni Amelio’s film is making its mark at the box office,” the film’s distributor 01 Distribution said in a statement.
“It is a very positive sign for all Italian cinema at the start of a new season following a difficult period: the audience is returning to the cinemas,” the distributor emphasized.
“Ants,” produced by Simon Gattoni and Marco Bellocchio, stars Luigi Lo Cassio (“The Bonds”) who is convicted after a complaint from his younger partner’s father, who later forced his son to undergo electroconvulsive therapy in a mistaken attempt to rid him of his homosexuality. The Fascist-era law that penalized Prypanti, and which made misleading the innocent or the “morally unwary” a crime was repealed in 1981.
Emilio said in Venice diverse That his main concern was “to make a popular film that could attract and resonate with a wide audience” and “not be overly attached to an accurate reconstruction of everything that happened”.
the movie that diverse Critic Jay Lodge was sold internationally by The Match Factory, which struck several deals even before its first show in Venice.
The upcoming Venice Competition title to be released in Italian theaters is Emanuele Crialese’s Penelope Cruz “L’Immensità” which will be released by Warner Bros. on september 15
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