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Leonardo DiCaprio may have opened the Cannes Film Festival this week with his latest movie, The Great Gatsby, but it has been Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, that has stolen the show. In the middle of this battle of the two Leonardos is veteran Hollywood producer, Larry A. Thompson, who announced that the mystery of the greatest art heist in history, the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), is about to be a major motion picture titled Missing Mona Lisa. On January 4, 2014, the Louvre Museum, France, and the world will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the painting’s return to the Louvre. The 2014 worldwide release of the movie will coincide with the Centennial Celebration. Thompson’s movie, based on an original screenplay by Mark J. Hudelson, is the romanticised true story of Vincenzo Peruggia, a lovable, grief-stricken, Italian simpleton, who, while working in the Louvre, becomes beguiled by Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Believing in his heart she is homesick for Italy, and mistakenly thinking she was stolen from her homeland by Napoleon, he steals the painting and smuggles her home with him to Florence. What is a lovable, patriotic gesture by Peruggia turns into... ]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:00 +0200 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130517/arts-entertainment/mona-lisa-arrives-at-the-cannes-film-festival.470118