Bellucci Premieres 'Ketticè' at Locarno as Palermo Aristocrat Who 'Abandoned Her Femininity'

Monica Bellucci premiered Giovanni Tortorici's 'Ketticè' at the 79th Locarno Film Festival on 9 August 2026. She plays a bitter Palermo aristocrat in pyjamas holding a knife nobody fears — a character she told Variety had "abandoned her femininity." The Luca Guadagnino-produced film competes in Locarno's Concorso Internazionale for the CHF 75,000 top prize.