Ora Fest

What happens when two highly accomplished actors get together and discuss their craft? For one, they ponder their job description – actor vs. actress.

A cinematic Peter Pan gifted with seemingly eternal youth and endless enthusiasm, it's difficult to believe that writer/director Terry Gilliam is 82. He was at Ora!Fest in Monopoli, Puglia, the first week of June to talk about the restored 4k version of his 1988 retelling and reinvention of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

It began with an ocean and ended with trees. The Ora! Fest’s closing night ceremony stayed in line with the entire festival’s environmental theme as awards were handed out in a variety of categories.

The Golden Globe-winner talks olive trees, strong female characters and 1923 on opening night of the ORA! Fest in Puglia, Italy You have a summer residence in the southern part of Puglia, which is famous for its olive trees, many of which are unfortunately affected by a deadly bacteria. Did you lose any trees? Helen Mirren: We don't have a lot of olives like some people, but we had 80 olive trees that got hit with Xylella.

When Dame Helen Mirren arrived in a golf cart in the historical center of Monopoli, the charming port town in Puglia, she – unlike her colleagues who are attending the festival – had only been on a three-hour car ride to get there. Mirren loves to spend her summers in her Italian home, a 16th-century Masseria, a typical Pugliese farmhouse in Tiggiano that she and her husband, director Taylor Hackford, have spent the better part of five years restoring.