Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact that she has terminal cancer. Therefore, not wanting to retread covered ground, the prolific Coixet initially was not keen to take on an adaptation of Michela Murgia’s Italian bestseller “Tre Ciotole” (“Three Bowls”), a semi-autobiographical book about being diagnosed with kidney cancer.
But when Italian producer Riccardo Tozzi insisted and Coixet read the collection of stories, she was persuaded to make the film because the story showed how “even in goodbye there is grace, and even in sorrow, there is space for joy.” The result is “Three Goodbyes,” which just premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and will release in Italy on Oct. 9 via Vision Distribution.
In Murgia’s “Tre Ciotole” a couple, Marta and Antonio, split up after what seems like a trivial argument.
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