The divine commedia

By Philippa Hawker
Updated September 21 2012 - 4:18pm, first published September 15 2012 - 3:00am
<i>The Big Heart of Girls.</i>
<i>The Big Heart of Girls.</i>
<i>Shun Li and the Poet</i>.
<i>Shun Li and the Poet</i>.

IT'S not surprising, Elysia Zeccola Hill says, that comedies are doing well in Italian cinemas these days. The European debt crisis means people are primed for escapism. And as the director of the Italian Film Festival, she knows this is also what audiences across Australia will expect: it's what they have come to associate with Italian movies.

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