Locarno – The Locarno Film Festival will kick off on August 5 with the screening of “Ricki and the Flash” by Jonathan Demme. But in the international competition there os also the Italian “Bella e Perduta” by Pietro Marcello. The director, born in Caserta in 1976, has directed several documentaries including the successful “La bocca del lupo”. In this new work, he narrates the story of Tommaso Cestrone, the pastor who maintained and revived the Palace of Carditello, before the state took charge of the site. (9Colonne)