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2023: When Hollywood comes to Bologna, La Dolce Vita turns sweet murder…
Italian Rules
What you need to know before your trail
A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city’s renown cinema archive decides to mark the occasion with a screening of the original, only to discover it has disappeared.
After English detective Daniel Leicester follows the trail of Love on a Razorblade to an apparent murder-suicide, he begins to suspect there may be more at stake than missing negatives – could the film contain a clue to one of the city’s most enduring mysteries? Together with a star from the forthcoming remake, Daniel moves from the glamour of Venice Lido to the depths of Bologna’s secret tunnel system as a sinister network closes in and he learns some people are ready to kill for the ultimate director’s cut.
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Bologna and the world of cinema
“CineBo was the pre-eminet film lab in Italy and one of the best in the world, holding tens of thousands of films in its archieve in a former tobavvo facotyr situated onl five minutes across the road from our office in Via Marconi. It was a huge presence in Bologna – a ‘film city’ inside the walls, comprising not only of the archive and resoration wing, but also across the ascrappy Parco Settembre 11, a cinema complex on the site of a former slaughter house, plus a giant screen every summer in the main square, Piazza Maggiore, which featured a range of films, from recent restorations to popiular movies and classics, often accompanied by a live orchestra, free to the public. Projected against the backdrop of those Renaissance arcades and the looming, copper green dome of Sant Maria della Vita, it was Cinema Paradiso on steroids.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Italian Rules
Destination/location: Bologna Author/guide: Tom Benjamin Departure Time: 2023
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