The timing may be coincidental, but it feels apt that I interviewed Monica Bellucci on International Women's Day, March 8.

One of the most restlessly globe-trotting stars in world cinema, the Italian model-turned-actor refuses to let her filmography be dictated either by national borders or imagined age brackets: Now in her 50s and defying the industry's oft-decried shutout of women over 40, she has recently worked with Iranian auteur Bahman Ghobadi on "Rhino Season," lent otherworldly luster to fellow Italian Alice Rohrwacher's rural fable "The Wonders" and struck sparks with Daniel Craig in last year's 007 outing "Spectre."

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