Italian-American actress Isabella
Rossellini is to receive the Special David di Donatello 2023
award, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian
Cinema - Premi David di Donatello awards Piera Detassis said on
Wednesday.
The award ceremony will be on May 10 and will be broadcast live
on public service broadcaster Rai Uno.
Rossellini, 70, "has managed to challenge every commonplace with
great freedom, confirming herself to be a multifaceted and
nonconformist artist, a model of great fame, a great performer
and an ironic author of provocative films and theatrical
monologues, and finally an ethologist and environmental
activist," said Detassis. ''
"The Special David therefore wants to celebrate a cosmopolitan
and at the same time very Italian protagonist, a precious
ambassador of our culture, who makes a return to our cinema
today in Alice Rohrwacher's film La Chimera, in competition at
Cannes.''
Rossellini is the daughter of Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman
and Italian director Roberto Rossellini.
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