Bernardo Bertolucci's first Italian-language feature in 32 years and first feature in
9 years - ME AND YOU (Io e Te), a sensual coming of age picture, opens in New
York City on July 4th and will then expand to more theaters across the US.

ME AND YOU (IO E TE) stars Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco and is based
on a novel by Niccolo Ammaniti's novel. The film premiered at the Cannes Film
Festival as an official Out of Competition Selection in 2012 and was named film
of the year by Italy's Nastri d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) honors.

This is the 4th film in the Cinema Made in Italy Series (following HONEY, THE
GREAT BEAUTY, and DORMANT BEAUTY), a program that gives major
marketing and distribution support to 5 Italian films in the US created by the
Instituto Luce-Cinecittà, the Italian Trade Commission and Emerging Pictures.

SYNOPSIS: Lorenzo (ANTINORI), a quirky 14-year-old loner who has difficult
relationships with his parents and peers, decides to take a break from it all by
hiding out in his building's neglected basement. For an entire week, he will
finally avoid all conflict and pressure to be a "normal" teenager. But an
unexpected visit from Lorenzo's older half-sister Olivia (FALCO) changes
everything. A worldly 25-year old beauty, her problematic and fragile state
upsets Lorenzo's total escape from reality, and their forced cohabitation in the
basement's confined space brings forth confrontation and old resentments, but
also a need for affection and intimacy. A few emotional days and nights with his
sister Olivia will inspire Lorenzo to see the world through new eyes.

BERTOLUCCI FILMOGRAPHY: Bernardo Bertolucci proved to be Italian cinema's
great prodigy, making his debut La commare secca (The Grim Reaper) at the age of
22, and Prima della rivoluzione (Before the Revolution) at the age of 24, achievements comparable to Orson Welles directing Citizen Kane at the age of 25. Bertolucci's success continued through the '70s with the scandalous Last Tango in Paris marking the beginning of his enormously successful career continuing through the historical epics Novecento (1900) and The Last Emperor, winner of 9 Academy Awards. In the '90s, he returned to shoot in Italy with Stealing Beauty and Besieged, then directed a nostalgic return to 1968 Paris with the 2003 film The Dreamers. Shortly after, severe back pain, several operations and relapsed rehabilitations prevented Bertolucci from following through on any film. Every project, some very ambitious with big international casts, had to be shelved due to his medical condition. Io e Te (Me and You) marks Bertolucci's first feature film in nearly a decade and the first in his native language in over 30 years.

Bertolucci recently received a special Cannes Palme d'Or d'Honneur, a Venice Golden
Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and full retrospectives at London's BFI and New York's MoMA.

"Bertolucci's sly, sleek images distill a lifetime of aesthetic passion
and exalt the very luxury that they deride."

- Richard Brody, The New Yorker

"Three decades away from his native Italian cinema have done nothing to blunt
[Bertolucci's] touch for capturing adolescent sensual yearning."
- Peter Debruge, Variety

97 Minutes in Italian with English subtitles
An Emerging Pictures Release
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