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Living in the Eternal City during the Rome Film Festival
Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, one of the largest red carpets in the world, hosts the nineteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival. The festival, which started on October 16, continues with all its colours and excitement. Many stars and directors came to the festival, which was held under the artistic direction of Paola Malanga. All of them passed in front of the photographers in their elegant dresses. The billboard featuring Marcello Mastroianni, the main hero of the poster, welcomes us all over the city and in the festival area. It started with Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis, starring Adam Driver, which was screened at the festival’s soft opening on October 15. The magic of the seventh art encompassed the city with many events, including historical addresses and news, exhibitions and events dedicated to the screen legend.
One of the legendary corners of the city was dedicated to the legendary Marcello Mastroianni. The great Marcello, the protagonist of countless films, the symbol of the sweet life and charm, would be a hundred years old: “Mastroianni” in Castel Sant’Angelo. Yesterday, Today, Forever” presents a series of shots of the actor’s amazing career on the centenary of his birth. We will live with Marcello Mastroianni at the National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo (Clement VIII, Apollo and the Chamber of Justice) until January 12, and experience his story and the stories he brought to life.
One of the most beautiful Roman gardens is hidden in an early 19th-century palace built by Giuseppe Valadier, now transformed into the Hotel de Russie. One of the legendary addresses of the capital, the hotel has always been loved for its charming stays thanks to its location in Via del Babuino, near Piazza del Popolo. In the 19th century, it was the second home of Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. The Italian garden divided into three terraces is an oasis of greenery in the heart of the city: among rose bushes, orange trees, imposing pines and a small waterfall that descends into three nymphaeums serves the aperitif of the Stravinskij Bar, which until October 27th is dedicated to cinema. At the Stravinsky Bar, you take a wonderful journey into the past in a fascinating atmosphere enlivened by the soundtracks of the most famous films in which Loren starred. On this fascinating journey through time, old Fiat 500s and old Vespas, symbols of Italy, will accompany you. All with the special That’s Amore Sophia! With six new offerings created by expert bartenders who reflect on the diva’s films, from La Ciociara (Scotch, Rum, Vermouth, Mr. Black, Passion Fruit) to Matrimonio All’Italiana (Bourbon, Amaro, Amaretto, Lemon, Sugar, Egg). white cocktail list). A tribute to Love Sophia!
The Rome Film Festival breeze sweeps through the streets, reaching Hotel De la Ville just a few steps from Trinità dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna. At Cielo Bar, you can enjoy the new cocktail list designed in honour of the most famous international films set here. Rome. Cine-Cielo is the newest product from Bar Manager Simone Di Serio, offering five new suggestions that you can try in October on the magnificent terrace on the sixth floor of the hotel belonging to the Rocco Forte Hotels group: sipping evocative drinks – from Vacanze Romane (Vodka, passion fruit liqueur, lemon juice, violet, simple syrup) to an Americano in Rome (Campari Cask Tales, red vermouth infused with coffee and vanilla, soda, lemon extract) – you imagine a postcard Rome, or rather when you enlarge the screen.
And Sophia Loren, one of the legendary names of the immortal city, appears before us in another legendary place on the occasion of her 90th birthday. With the new Sophia Loren Suite of the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel. Sophia Loren herself inaugurated it on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday party. Very elegant in her Armani dress, the diva, accompanied by her son Edoardo Ponti, presented the sophisticated suite furnished like a beautiful Roman residence. Located in the splendour of ancient Rome, in the heart of Piazza della Repubblica and overlooking the ancient Baths of Diocletian, the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Roma Hotel is the favourite place for those who want to stay in the city centre. In the Sophia suite, you live in elegance, in an environment enriched with the details so loved by the actress, from her favourite books to the paintings of her beloved hometown, Pozzuoli, to the inevitable white roses. A way to enter the world of the diva, to live the true Roman sweet life.