Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 82'
It is winter in Milan, a city shaken by a deep crisis. Giorgia, a young jazz singer, projects her own personal crisis onto Milan. She remembers the time a few year ago in New York when she fell in love with Charlie, a brilliant American jazz man. For her, he was her artistic point of reference. After a long period of silence, Charlie has now come to Milan. He came on the day that "19", a mythic temple of jazz for city people, is forced to close its doors. The meeting with Charlie is a blow for Giorgia. It seems that the musician no longer wants to live up to the romantic ideal that Georgia had nourished of him for years. Giorgia reinterprets her artistic hopes inside of a trifling and petty musical world. Here, only the figures of some jazz greats stand out in the limelight. These are the ones who wanted to follow their personal paths consciously and lovingly. There is an impressioned jam-session to celebrate the closing of the historical jazz club. When Giorgia goes away from it, she seems to understand where she should be going to at last This is a musical film with an extraordinary jazz atmosphere. The musicians themselves play a large number of roles, and often they play themselves.
"Giorgia is a film about a generation that lost themselves in compromises, selling out its dreams. Above all, however, Giorgia is a film about jazz - that harsh, strong music - and about the disquiet that contemporary artist feels when she measures herself against a music that is also a way of life. Her disquiet is one of a confused personality that is measured up against defined, grounded, and true 'sounds' and 'faces'." (Marco Maccaferri)
Biography
film director
Marco Maccaferri
For Marco Maccaterri (Bologna, 1954), this is the first feature film. For many years he directed television programs and reports for Rai and Fininvest, documentaries for corporations (Alfa Romeo, Tecnica and Renault), and commercials for televisions and conventions. At the same time he worked as executive producer in Milanese films, such as Gianluca Fumagalli's Come dire and Adriana Monti's Gentili signore. He also directed short films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Scomposizione (cm, 16mm, 1982), Astronave color gas (cm, 16mm, 1985), Una vita del jazz (cm, 16mm e video, 1988), L'assistente e il suo mago (cm, 16mm, 1990), Giorgia (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Marco Maccaferri.
Screenplay: Fabio Carlini, Marco Maccaferri.
Director of photography: Claudio Beliero.
Editor: Michele Mally.
Suono e musica: (in presa diretta) Roberto Mozzarelli.
Cast: Patrizia Di Malta, Tim Berne, Antonio Catania, Ric Miniggio, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Tony Scott, Bernard Ayangma.
Director of Production: Oderso Rubini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Studio Equatore, via Aosta 2, 20155 Milano, tel. +39-02-314473, fax +39-02-33611001.
Il film è stato realizzato nell'ambito del progetto Transeuropèenne, con la collaborazione di RAI SAT.
Screenplay: Fabio Carlini, Marco Maccaferri.
Director of photography: Claudio Beliero.
Editor: Michele Mally.
Suono e musica: (in presa diretta) Roberto Mozzarelli.
Cast: Patrizia Di Malta, Tim Berne, Antonio Catania, Ric Miniggio, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Tony Scott, Bernard Ayangma.
Director of Production: Oderso Rubini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Studio Equatore, via Aosta 2, 20155 Milano, tel. +39-02-314473, fax +39-02-33611001.
Il film è stato realizzato nell'ambito del progetto Transeuropèenne, con la collaborazione di RAI SAT.