Premio Interprete del Presente 2024
Friday 5 July at 20:00 at the Teatro Miela
Friday 5 July at 20:00 at the Teatro Miela
Michele Riondino made his debut as film director last autumn, conveying to audiences and critics the force of truth and his calibrated, remarkable narrative and social and political imprint in Palazzina LAF, multi-award winner at the recent David di Donatello and Nastri d’Argento, a story with multiple voices about the persecution of categories of workers by the polluting and treacherous Ilva factory in his city, later condemned, which relegated many professionals to doing nothing in a building isolated as if in humiliating disuse. As maker, he assigned himself the almost surreal character of the semi-aware accomplice of the evil boss, playing him without compromise or excesses, extraordinarily. It is not only for this reason that Riondino embodies the conventional idea of the free and mature Interprete del Presente for the human and artistic gravitas adopted in his never trivial journey, which began after graduating from the Academy of Dramatic Art. Fully present years ago in another film shot in his defiant Taranto, Marpiccolo by Di Robilant, a tenacious worker in Acciaio by Mordini set in Piombino around another polluting factory, a vital friend of the young Neapolitan journalist Siani killed by the Camorra in Risi’s Fortapàsc and brotherly sidekick of Leopardi towards the end of his life between Naples and Torre del Greco in Martone’s Il giovane favoloso. He has expressed surprising flashes in important films by Vicari, Rovere, Bellocchio, Taviani, Cappai, D’Angelo, Danieli. Highly regarded in Tavarelli’s Il giovane Montalbano series, he has just won the Nastro d’Argento Grandi Serie award for his starring role as Vincenzo Florio, revolutionary anti-power entrepreneur in I leoni di Sicilia. Also noteworthy is his work in the theatre, cadenced with shrewd choices and eclectic bravura. And he is no stranger to music either: in Taranto (and where else?) with partners Roy Paci and Diodato he devised and directed the 1 May concert. Riondino has such a rooted identity and wide-ranging curiosity that he will remain an Interprete del Presente for… ever.
Maurizio di Rienzo
Michele Riondino made his debut in the TV series Distretto di polizia, where he appeared from 2003 to 2005. In cinema, he had a part in Uomini & donne, amori & bugie, Eleonora Giorgi’s directorial debut, followed by Daniele Vicari’s Il passato è una terra straniera, which earned him a nomination for the Nastri d’Argento. In 2009, he was chosen to star alongside Isabella Ragonese in Valerio Mieli’s film Dieci inverni, for which he won the Premio Guglielmo Biraghi in 2010, awarded to young actors who have made a name for themselves in Italian cinema, as well as the European Shooting Star award. In 2012, he starred in the new RAI drama Il giovane Montalbano, a prequel to the well-known TV series with Luca Zingaretti, in which he played the newly appointed Sicilian police commissioner. Although TV brought him great success, it was the cinema that recognised his bravura and so it was that for his performance in La ragazza del mondo he was nominated as Best Actor in a Leading Role at the David di Donatello, at the Golden Globes and as Best Couple together with co-star Sara Serraiocco at the Ciak d’Oro. In 2018, he was the godfather of the 75th Venice Film Festival. His performance in his directorial debut Palazzina LAF won him the David Di Donatello 2024 as Best Actor in a Leading Role; the film also received nominations for Directing Debut and Original Screenplay.
2023 Palazzina LAF
2021 I nostri fantasmi
2019 Restiamo amici
Un’avventura
2017 Falchi
Diva!
2016 La ragazza del mondo
Senza lasciare traccia
2015 Maraviglioso Boccaccio
2014 Il giovane favoloso
2012 Bella addormentata
Acciaio
2011 Gli sfiorati
Qualche nuvola
Henry
2010 Noi credevamo
2009 Marpiccolo
Dieci inverni
Fortapàsc
2008 Il passato è una terra straniera
2003 Uomini & donne, amori & bugie
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