Bobby Paunescu Articles
Venice 2009: Viggo Mortensen, Salman Rushdie, Todd Haynes
Doru Boguta, Bobby Paunescu, Monica Barladeanu of Francesca, Salman Rushdie Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee Todd Haynes Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival Click on the photos to enlarge them.
FRANCESCA Controversy: Alessandra Mussolini Called "a Whore"
Monica Birladeanu in Francesca (top); Bobby Paunescu (bottom) Romanian-born filmmaker Bobby Paunescu's Francesca, which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival, may be banned from Italian screens following a legal motion by far-right lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini (right), granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. Reason for Mussolini's outrage: in one scene in Francesca, she is called "a whore." (In 2007, Mussolini created [...]