The films are Diva Futura, Babygirl, Love and Queer.
Diva Futura by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt is the story of the eponymous agency set up by Riccardo Schicchi (Pietro Castellitto) in the 1980s that would lead to Cicciolina, Moana Pozzi, Eva Henger and the other adult stars becoming household names.
The agency also led, among other things, to the creation of the Love Party aimed at improving sex education in schools.
In Babygirl by Dutch director Halina Reijn, “Nicole Kidman is Romy, a dissatisfied manager who seeks comfort in a sado-masochistic relationship with her young intern, played by Harris Dickinson,” said festival director Alberto Barbera.
Antonio Banderas plays Kidman’s husband while Sophie Wilde, the star of Talk to Me, is the assistant to Kidman’s CEO.
Love by Dag Johan Haugerud, “is the third film of a trilogy on the analysis of sexual behaviour in contrast to social norms, and which questions the disparity between men and women,” said Barbera.
It is the last of the trilogy Sex, Dream and Love, whose first part caused a stir in Berlin last year.
Guadagnino’s Queer is “a dream come true” for the Sicilian director of Call Me By Your Name.
Set in 1950 in Mexico City, its shows Lee (Daniel Craig) as a drug addicted American expat who spends his days almost totally alone.
Lee’s encounter with an off-duty navy sailor with similar drug tastes “deludes him into thinking he can finally make an intimate connection with someone,” said Guadagnino.
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