Robert De Niro will be honored with the Lupa Capitolina, the city of Rome’s top honor, in tandem with the Rome Film Festival’s independently run Alice in the City sidebar, which is dedicated to films for children and youth.
De Niro in expected on November 6 and 7 in the Italian capital where he will receive the honor from Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri.
Mixing business with kudos, De Niro will concurrently be in the Eternal City to attend the inauguration of his Nobu Hotel Roma on the iconic Via Veneto, the latest retreat from chef Nobu Matsuhisa, De Niro and producer Meir Teper, who will all be on hand.
They will perform the so-called Kagami-Biraki ceremony, in which the lid of the sake barrel is broken open with a wooden mallet and the sake is served to everyone present as a symbol of harmony and good fortune, in front of the hotel on Via Veneto, of “La Dolce Vita” fame.
The event will be part of the Alice in the City’s new extension called “Fuori Sala” which translates as “outside the cinema.”
The sidebar includes meetings, readings and presentations related to cinema, and books for audiences of all ages held in October and November.
Meanwhile, Alice in the City on Wednesday also announced it will open on October 15 with U.S. director Ben Leonberg’s breakout horror movie “Good Boy” that launched from SXSW and features a family dog named Indy who must protect his sickly owner from a sinister supernatural force. Other "Alice in the City" highlights include the continental European premiere of family drama “Anemone” directed by Ronan Day-Lewis that brought his father Daniel Day-Lewis, who co-wrote the film, out of retirement after 8 years – both will be attending – and Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s compassionate directorial debut “The President’s Cake” about Iraqi children living under Saddam Hussein.
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