Filming begins for Michela Murgia's "Three Bowls"
The book by the Sardinian writer becomes a film: set in Rome, Italian-Spanish production entrusted to the Catalan director Isabel Coixet
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Michela Murgia, who passed away on August 10, 2023 at the age of 51, continues to live on through her works. The baton is taken up by the acclaimed Spanish director Isabel Coixet (“Un Amor”, “La mia vita senza me”, “La vita segreta delle parole”, “Maps of the sounds of Tokyo”) who will translate for the cinema the book by the Sardinian writer “Tre ciotole” published in Italy by Mondadori which boasts over 200 thousand copies sold. Rome will be the location of the shooting which will start on Monday, March 3 with a cast that sees Alba Rohrwacher (in the role of Marta) and Elio Germano, who plays Antonio. The screenplay is by the director herself and by Enrico Audenino fresh from writing “Nonostante” the new film directed by Valerio Mastandrea and already author among other things of “Gomorra”.
The director
Director Isabel Coixet explains: «“Three Bowls” is my interior landscape, the story of a woman grappling with two simultaneous events: she is in the midst of a painful separation and facing the inevitable. But she is not a woman who begs or seeks compromises; she is a woman who bows, as one does before the setting sun, aware that it will rise again, elsewhere, beyond her gaze. I want to tell her journey in today's Rome with delicacy and emotion, because Marta shows us that even in farewell there can be grace, and even in pain there is room for joy».
The production
An Italian-Spanish production by Cattleya - part of Itv Studios - Ruvido Produzioni, Bartlebyfilm, together with Buenapinta Media, Bteam Prods, Colosé Producciones and Perdición Films, Vision Distribution and in collaboration with Sky and with the participation of Max in Spain. Riccardo Tozzi, founder and president of Cattleya states: «I have come across Isabel Coixet and her work several times. When I read Michela Murgia's book I immediately thought she would be perfect to direct it. She knows how to tell love in the most diverse forms and with great intensity. And this seemed to me to be a story of love and the meaning of life. With Isabel there was a perfect understanding, and she immediately had clear ideas, starting with the choice of Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano as the protagonists».
Massimo Proietti (CEO of Vision Distribution) adds: «We are honored to be able to collaborate on such a strong and intense work that confirms our path and our attention to female talent, taken from the book of an author who in Italy has represented and still is a point of reference, a voice and a lucid and profound thought on the themes of modern life that, we are certain».
