14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1996 - Fiction
L'ASTICE
by Marina Spada
A terminal situation without hope or a festive midday dinner out? This depends on your point of view. From a restaurant aquarium, a lobster observes customers who are peacefully banqueting. The last stop of an existence can be put off for a pair of stops, while it can happen suddenly and without warning for others. L'astice is a piece of black humor about our quest for freedom, our hopes, and our more or less facile illusions.
Biography
film director
Marina Spada
Marina Spada (Milan, 1957) received a degree from the School of the Little Theater of Milan and a university degree in Music History. She teaches Film Management at School of Cinema in Milan. She shoots high-definition documentaries for NHK, the Japanese State television network, and new reports for RAI. Her short, L'astice, won second prize in the Italy Space competition of the Turin Film Festival (1996) as well as other important national and international citations.
FILMOGRAFIA
Anna dai capelli roc (1982), Un giorno dopo l'altro (1989), Le radici della libertà (1991), Amerò solo un Dio che danza (1993), Siamo tutti innamorati (1994), Maratona di New York (1994), Pietro Lingeri, architetto a Milano (1994), Fernanda Pivano, c'era una volta l'America (1995), L'astice (1996), Arnaldo Pomodoro, racconto dell'artista (1997), Dove si guarda c'è quello che siamo (1998), Francesco Leonetti, scrittore a sette code (1998).
Cast
& Credits
Screenplay: Marina Spada, Giovanni Covini, Massimo Di Lernia, da una storia di Alfredo Castelli.
Director of photography: Andrea Treccani.
Editor: Brunetto Casalini, Diego Cassani.
Music: Massimo Villa, Demetrio Stratos.
Cast: Nicola Rignanese, Pietro Farneti.
Production company and Italian distribution: Groucho Film, via Milazzo 10, 20121 Milano, tel. +390229005559, fax +390229005634.