Italian police shut down Mick Jagger’s wrap party on Stromboli

Italian police shut down a wrap party on the island of Stromboli attended by Sir Mick Jagger, citing local rules banning music on Wednesdays.

The Rolling Stones lead singer was celebrating with the cast of the forthcoming movie “Three Incestuous Sisters,” which stars Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Saoirse Ronan, and Josh O’Connor, Italian media reported.

Cast and crew marked the end of filming at a venue on the small volcanic island off the Sicilian coast before police ended the festivities.

The head of Stromboli’s tourism office, Rosa Oliva, confirmed the incident and criticized the police action as a “punitive intervention.”

Music had been playing through one small speaker at a reasonable volume, local media reported, when it was interrupted by Carabinieri officers.

The police ban met with confusion and hilarity from guests, who reluctantly accepted the officers’ request, according to Italian news agency Ansa.

Oliva called it “yet another sign that a territory, rather than being valued and supported after a winter of severe shortages and neglect, finds itself penalised even in its moments of social gathering and visibility.”

Referring to the Mayor of Lipari, Riccardo Gullo, she said “one would have expected a welcome to the guests, or at least a greeting and a thank you for their crucial contribution” to the local economy.

Stromboli is one of several Aeolian islands that fall under Lipari’s administration and are impacted by the mayor’s Wednesday music ban.

The BBC has approached Gullo for comment.

“Three Incestuous Sisters” is directed by Alice Rohrwacher, who has previously been nominated for the Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize.

The film is based on a US graphic novel of the same name, which traces the lives of three sisters pining after a lighthouse keeper’s son, whose arrival disrupts their solitude.

Sir Mick has been reportedly cast as the lighthouse keeper, while his son will be played by “The Crown” and “Challengers” star O’Connor.

Isabella Rossellini has also been cast in the movie, seven decades after her mother Ingrid Bergman starred in Stromboli (1950), directed by her father, Roberto Rossellini.

The “Blue Velvet” actress shared images of a trip to the island’s active volcano on social media, noting that she was working on the film “where my parents […] fell in love in 1949.”