Alberta (Luisa Ranieri) and Gabriella (Jasmine Trinca) are sisters. Together they run a highly regarded Fashion House that specialises in designing and creating costumes for the entertainment industry. When we meet them they have two distinct personalities. Alberta is stern and all business and Gabriella is quiet and almost withdrawn.
They are surrounded by a staff of colourful and idiosyncratic women. Each of these ladies have private lives that vary from good to the truly awful. As the film fills in the blanks and you get to know them, you also get invested in their plight and come to understand their actions.
When a large movie costume job arrives, it pushes the staff to their limit and the effects their private lives have on their ability to work. We find the sisters harbouring a tragic secret from their past, a staff member who deals with domestic abuse is a most straight forward manner and many other tales.
The most intoxicating aspect of Diamonds is how these characters and your knowledge of them and their lives is constantly changing. As these ladies and their lives come into sharper focus you can’t help but to be drawn in and make a connection and feel their acute sense of success and failure and the camaraderie that that fosters.
Rob Hudson
Diamonds Screenings in Brisbane
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Thursday 25th September 3:00pm
Saturday 27th September 12:40pm
Palace James St Cinema
Monday 29th September 3:15pm
Wednesday 1st October 7:45pm
Thursday 2nd October 12:50pm
Thursday 9th October 8:10pm
Sunday 12th October 10:10am
Wednesday 15th OcOctobert 3:00pm
Sunday 19th October 5:45pm
Tuesday 21st October 11:00am
2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival runs in Brisbane from 24 September – 22 October, and will take place at the Palace James Street and Palace Barracks cinemas. Click here for more information about the festival, or head to the official website for more information and to book your tickets!
www.italianfilmfestival.com.au
