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Nick Vivarelli
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Getty Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher, known for her magical realist works “The Wonders,” “Happy as Lazzaro” and “La Chimera” — all of which competed at Cannes Film Festival — is set to direct a feature film adaptation of Italo Calvino’s coming-of-age fable “The Baron in the Trees.”
One of the most celebrated books in 20th century Italian literature, “The Baron in the Trees” was published in 1957 and revolves around a 12-year-old baron named Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, who after a dispute with his father, climbs up a tree and remains there for the rest of his life. It is the late Calvino’s bestselling work of fiction alongside his 1979 novel “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.”
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