Director Francesca Comencini got five Silver Ribbons, the annual movie awards from Italian cinema journalists, for her Il tempo che ci vuole (The Time It Takes), about a father and daughter sharing a passion for cinema during the Years of Lead domestic political terrorism period.
The film draws from 63-year-old Comencini's relationship with her late father, the famous Italian director Luigi Comencini, and is set during Comencini's shooting of the 1972 TV miniseries The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Actress Greta Scarano, 38, got the Silver Ribbon for best debt for her first directing effort La vita da grandi, a domestic drama about a woman who returns to her hometown to care her autistic brother only to find that he doesn't want to live with her.
To help him achieve independence and his dream of becoming a famous singer, she therefore decides to conduct an intensive adulting course.
Comencini's autobiographical story won as best film; for the screenplay; with Romana Maggiora Vergano, best leading lady in a tie with Valeria Golino, for her performance as the writer Goliarda Sapienza in Mario Martone's Fuori; for Fabrizio Gifuni best leading actor in the role of Luigi Comencini and for the casting directors Laura Muccino (also awarded for Le assaggiatrici by Silvio Soldini) and Sara Casani.
