Country: Italy
Year: 1994
Duration: 9'
Two improbable post office workers find that they have to deliver a package with an ambiguous content They are eaten up by curiosity. They want to open the package and steal it. They go down a more imaginary than real path towards an imaginary receiver of the package. They are guided by couples in constant crisis as well as do-nothing philosophers who hold discourses on amorous sentiments. By now the package is a metaphor, an "obscure object of desire" onto which everyone project their own dream. At last, the package is delivered. "The sender is unknown, and the receiver too. And it is a great bit of luck that you got it with". The man is confused. He accepts the package and runs to open it. The film closes with the parable of those lovers who open their own packages too quickly.
Biography
film director
Roberta Torre
Roberta Torre (Milan, Italy, 1962) started directing documentaries and shorts, including Le anime corte in 1994, awarded at the Torino Film Festival. She debuted in feature films in 1997 with the musical Tano da morire, which received Kodak Award, the FEDIC Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice, and the David di Donatello for Best New Director. She next directed Sud Side Stori (2000); Angela (2002); Mare Nero (2006), with which she participated at the Locarno Film Festival; I baci mai dati (2010), based on the same-titled novel and which received the Brian Award at Venice and was presented at Sundance. She is also a stage director and author: as well as the already-mentioned I baci mai dati in 2014, she has also published Il colore è una variabile dell’infinito.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cronica (cm, 1989), Senti amor mio? (cm, 1994), Le anime corte (cm, 1994), Spioni (cm, doc., 1995), Appunti per un film su Tano (cm, doc., 1995), Palermo bandita (cm, doc., 1996), Tano da morire (1997), Sud Side Stori (2000), Il viaggio lungo di Arul, Rani e Vivetas (doc., 2002), Angela (2002), La malacanzone (doc., 2005), Mare Nero (2006), All Human Rights for All (ep. La fabbrica, cm, doc., 2008), La notte quando è morto Pasolini (cm, doc., 2009), Itiburtinoterzo (cm, doc., 2009), I baci mai dati (2010), Riccardo va all’inferno (2017).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Roberta Torre.
Director of photography: Nadia Confalonieri.
Editor: Alessandro Corradi.
Sound: Luigi Malchionda.
Cast: Ida di Benedetto, Gaspare Cicinella, Melino Imparato, Claudio Russo, Adriano Giammanco, Francesco Cin`.
Production company: Axelotil Film, Cinico Video, Renzo e Rean Mazzone Editori, Claudio Russo.
Director of photography: Nadia Confalonieri.
Editor: Alessandro Corradi.
Sound: Luigi Malchionda.
Cast: Ida di Benedetto, Gaspare Cicinella, Melino Imparato, Claudio Russo, Adriano Giammanco, Francesco Cin`.
Production company: Axelotil Film, Cinico Video, Renzo e Rean Mazzone Editori, Claudio Russo.