Country: Italy
Year: 1996
Duration: 86'
Two cousins Elena, a professional biologist, and Ida, an airline stewardess meet for the first time in fifteen years at the time when a seaside villa where they had spent their adolescence is to be sold. The relationship between the two women had gone sour when Elena got married to Enrico, Ida's exfiancé. Elena suffers from bulimia and spends her nights consuming enormous quantities of food on the sly in an effort to forget the crisis in her marriage. Elena finds out from her husband that he has decided to ask her for a separation. The woman takes out her unhappiness on Ida and throws her out of the house. At the train station, Ida thinks about what has happened and finds out about her cousin's illness. She retraces her steps back to the house and from the outside of the house she observes Elena's degradation in front of an infinite expanse of food.
Biography
film director
Elisabetta Lodoli
Elisabetta Lodoli (Bologna, 1952) graduated from the University with a degree in Philosophy and moved to the United States. in 1989 she received a master's degree in film and television direction at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles. Her first short film Off Season, won the Silver Seagull award at the Bellaria Festival in 1989. Along with Mauro Marchese, presented the short film, Buon Natale, at the 1993 Turin Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Off Season (16mm, cm, 1988), La pace a due voci (video, doc., 1991), I ragazzi del campetto (video, 1992), Altre giovinezze (video, 1992), Buon Natale (co-regia, 16mm, cm, 1993), La Venere di Willendorf (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Elisabetta Lodoli.
Screenplay: Elisabetta Lodoli, Heidrun Schleef.
Director of photography: Cesare Accetta.
Art director: Emita Frigato.
Editor: Anna Napoli.
Music: Savio Riccardi.
Sound: Mario laquone.
Cast and characters: Iaia Forte (Ida), Luisa Pasello (Elena), Emilio Bonucci (Enrico), Ilaria Occhini (Luisa).
Produttrice: Elisabetta Lodoli.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Elisabetta Lodoli, via F. Lampertico 7, 00191 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-06-3296791, fax +39063296790.
Screenplay: Elisabetta Lodoli, Heidrun Schleef.
Director of photography: Cesare Accetta.
Art director: Emita Frigato.
Editor: Anna Napoli.
Music: Savio Riccardi.
Sound: Mario laquone.
Cast and characters: Iaia Forte (Ida), Luisa Pasello (Elena), Emilio Bonucci (Enrico), Ilaria Occhini (Luisa).
Produttrice: Elisabetta Lodoli.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Elisabetta Lodoli, via F. Lampertico 7, 00191 Roma, Italy, tel. +39-06-3296791, fax +39063296790.
