The film is about the stories of three young people, Marisa, Anna and Enzo, whose situations develop alongside but without any link. Marisa, a modest shop assistant in a haberdasher’s, aims to become a singer: she will soon reach for success, thanks to a contest for new voices. Anna runs away from home to escape the lovely tyranny of her mother, but the life of a modern and free woman is very different from what she had in mind. Enzo, a boy with a head full of dreams frustrated by the misery of the reality that surrounds him, will try to escape the dullness of his existence by setting up a criminal operation.
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Biography
film director
Gianfranco Mingozzi
Gianfranco Mingozzi was born in Bologna on the 5th of April 1932. After his graduation in Law, he attended a course to be a director at Centro Sperimentale in Rome and he worked with Fellini as his assistant director. In 1964 he worked in Canada at the Office National du Film (N.F.B.). Screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author of investigative reports for the TV. His debut documentary as a director was La Taranta.
Documentaries. 1962: La Taranta. 1965: Con il cuore fermo, Sicilia. 1966: Michelangelo Antonioni, storia di un autore.
TV works. 1970: Pantere nere. 1970-72: C’è musica e musica. 1980: Sud e magia: Il treno per Istanbul (TV film). 1982: L’ultima diva: Francesca Bertini.
Films. 1967: Trio. 1968: Sequestro di persona. 1973: La vita in gioco (Morire a Roma). 1974: Flavia, la monaca musulmana. 1977: Gli ultimi tre giorni. 1982: La vela incantata.
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FILMOGRAFIA
Documentari. 1962: La Taranta. 1965: Con il cuore fermo, Sicilia. 1966: Michelangelo Antonioni, storia di un autore.
Lavori televisivi. 1970: Pantere nere. 197072: C'è musica e musica. 1980: Sud e magia; Il treno per Istanbul (film televisivo). 1982: L'ultima diva: Francesca Bertini.
Film a soggetto. 1967: Trio. 1968: Sequestro di persona. 1973: La vita in gioco (Morire a Roma) . 1974: Flavia, la monaca musulmana. 1977: Gli ultimi tre giorni. 1982: La vela incantata.
Declaration
film director
It is hard to make art films and it is also harder to distribute them. In Italy there are four or five producers who always make the same things: western films, comedies etc. When a producer accidentally makes a low budget film he is the first one, together with the distributor, who doesn’t believe in it. Bellocchio’s film only came out in Milan and only through one distribution channel. Because it is a low budget film it is going to cover the costs. But it should also be watched by the audience. Films are made to be watched.
The first of the three episodes of Trio, the one of the singer, it’s the only one that doesn’t have a development; after all, I think I would have betrayed this woman if I had put an end to her story. I actually didn’t know her yet, but only in a specific moment of her journey and more exactly the moment she won a musical contest and was waiting for a very specific moment: the moment to be known, to become popular, to be successful. (...)
Moreover I think that lingering on the reason of success is necessary to highlight the link between this episode and the one of the boy, it increases the reverse-shot. As a matter of fact, the obsessive effort made by the singer seems to be a clarifying element of a reason that appears in the second episode as well: the reason of success. That helps to understand the obsession that Enzo has towards his neighbour, or towards what he represents. (...)
I already had the idea of this character before shooting the episode of the singer. I hadn’t written the screenplay yet, but I had clear in my mind a few sequences to which build the episode around. While shooting I had a wider base. Of course I worked on the second episode with the first one still in mind. The same happened with the third, which I wrote after shooting the previous two. (...)
Despite everything, I hesitated: I didn’t know whether to shoot the third episode or not, that of the girl, because I was scared it could influence the clarity of the film although it had been planned linked to the other two episodes. Then I thought that the audience, after a first impression of confusion caused by three different stories apparently not linked to each other, would have started to get the interrelation, the affinities of the meanings.
The third story, for example, is about a young girl who discovers sex as an act of rebellion. But her story begins when her uprising is already happening. In a way, this story has a different evolution from the boy’s one, where the rebellion was the climax of the story, it was a gradual approach to it. (...) The story of the girl is, in a way, a journey to hell.
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Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Ugo Piccone.
Editor: Domenico Gorgolini.
Music: Franco Potenza.
Fonico: Vittorio De Sisti.
Cast and characters: Marisa Galvan (Marisa), Walter Vezza (Enzo), Mariella Zanetti (Anna), Antonio Ghighine (il vicino), Piera Degli Esposti (la sorella di Anna), Margherita Puratich (l'amica di Anna), Wolfgang Hillinger (l'amico di Anna), Ugo Piccon (il padre di Enzo), Cyrus Elas (l'uomo delle scale), Nico Fidenco (lui stesso), Janet Smith (la cantante folk), Luigi Castellato, Luciano Bartoli, Enzo Doria, Antoine.
Production company: Gian Vittorio Baldi per la I.D.I. Cinematografica.
Italian distribution: Indict.