Cinema: Italy comes away from Cannes empty handed

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 28 - Italy's three representatives at the Cannes Film Festival came away empty-handed Saturday at an edition won by French director Justine Triet's Aanatomy of a fall, the third woman director to pick up the Palme d'Or.
    Neither Marco Bellocchio's Rapito (Kidnapped), 2001 winner Nanni Moretti's Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow), nor Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera got any prizes.
    But Italian cinema officials highlighted that Italian cinema had nonetheless gained great prominence in an edition of the festival where the competition has been among the fiercest and highest quality in years.
    Having three films in competition is a record for Italy, they noted. (ANSA).