Monica Bellucci and Emir Kusturica talk about opening FEST Film Festival

(24 Feb 2017) MONICA BELLUCCI AND EMIR KUSTURICA TALK ABOUT OPENING FEST FILM FESTIVAL
Actress Monica Bellucci and director Emir Kusturica will open the FEST Film Festival in Belgrade on Friday (24 FEB. 2017) night with their film "On the Milky Road."
In a press conference before the opening ceremony, Bellucci said she was honored to kick off the festivities.
"I am really happy to be here tonight," she told the Serbian press.
"I know this is a very important festival that's been going on for 45 years - it's unbelievable. It's a real pleasure for me to be here and open this festival with a film that was a pleasure to work on."
She also praised Serbian filmmaker Kusturica for keeping things exciting on the shoot.
"The making if this movie took a long time and it was physically very demanding at times. For an artist it's important never to be bored and I have to say that you never get bored with Emir."
Kusturica, who premiered "On the Milky Road" at the Venice Film Festival last year, said the Italian-French actress impressed him with her dedication to the project.
"As I often said, she gave this film 100 percent from the beginning. She was in the mud, hiding under sheep, jumping from 20 meters high," he noted.
"On the Milky Road" starts in wartime during spring, following Kusturica as Kosta - a milkman who has to cross the frontline on a donkey to deliver his wares to the soldiers.
Milena (Sloboda Micalovic) is in love with him and has hopes they will wed on the same day as her war hero brother, once he returns to the village. But the arrival of her brother's wife-to-be - a mysterious Italian called Nevesta (Bellucci) – turns things upside down.
FEST runs until March 5.
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