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First look images from upcoming U.K./Italian co-production “Commedia” have been released, Variety can exclusively reveal.

Actor and writer Greta Bellamacina, who will next be seen in Sky Atlantic’s “This Sceptred Isle,” plays the lead, Irene.

Helmed by Italian film and theater director Riccardo Vannuccini, “Commedia” will be Vannuccini’s first English-language film and is intended as an homage to renowned Italian filmmaker Marco Ferreri.

Set as a “film within a film,” Vannuccini also co-stars in the feature, playing a director called Rocco Cucovaz who unsuccessfully directs Bellamacina in a variety of scenes, each one descending into chaos until the female actors eventually take over the production.

The film will explore Rocco and Irene’s “intense relationship” starting in the mental institution where they meet and continuing as they dip in and out of madness and sanity, fantasy and reality.

“‘Commedia’ is a harsh comedy which examines the...

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