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Cinema 

Frances McDormand, Helen Mirren and Vanessa Kirby all star in this year's line-up for the Venice Film Festival. Here's our list of five films we're excited about

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TV 

The story jumps ahead to three years in the future, as Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) prepares to graduate from her course in Pisa. She hasn't visited Naples in over a year

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TV 

My Brilliant Friend now examines the pains of unrequited love as Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) is made to bear the rising romance between Lila (Gaia Girace) and Nino (Francesco Serpico)

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TV 

Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) tries to upgrade herself into the Neapolitan intelligentsia while trying to score with Nino (Francesco Serpico), which threatens her friendship with Lila (Gaia Girace)

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TV 

In BBC Two's The Name of the Rose, John Turturro stars as Guglielmo da Baskerville, a 14th-century Franciscan friar who investigates a series of murders in an isolated monastery

Tried and Tested

Theatre 

A muscular performance from Jude Law isn't enough to ignite Ivo van Hove's stage adaptation of the classic film about charm, passion and murder

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Classical Music 

A virtuosic Russian piano concerto is performed with music by the great instrumentalists' countrymen

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Visual Arts 

For the love of trees... this Giuseppe Penone London exhibition explores man's place in the natural world

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Visual Arts 

Italy comes to London: Missoni exhibition weaves a fashion masterpiece at the Fashion and Textile Museum

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Rustle up this courgette carbonara linguine from Rachel Roddy's new cookbook Five Quarters

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Cinema 

New documentary about the Siena Palio Horse Race is an exhilarating hurtle into an ancient tradition of bloodlust and brutality.