14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Screenings 1996

Sorrisi asmatici - Fiori del destino

by Tonino De Bernardi
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1995
Duration: 120'


A film of wayfarers who arrive by water, except for Lou Vent and Carmèn. All of them are spurred by the desire of mutation. Once they have transformed themselves, they cross the places of the Earth without knowing them. What are involved are female and male Sirens who are becoming or who have already become human beings. As such, they begin to create their own destinies and to be the first innocent victims without knowing what is happening. Lucas-Triton is a sea creature and does not know how to use legs. On the other hand, Ines-Syrène has already begun to get used to the erect position. Everybody is the flower of destiny. Everybody also knows how to smile, even if in an asthmatic way.

Biography

film director

Tonino De Bernardi

(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.

FILMOGRAFIA

Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Tonino De Bernardi.
Director of photography: Tommaso Borgstrom.
Editor: Fiorella Giovannelli.
Music: dal vivo in sala.
Sound: Massimo Casseriani, Marco Mantelli.
Cast and characters: Lucas Belvaux (Triton), Lou Castel (Lou), Ines de Medeiros (Syrène), Ivano Marescotti, Anna Bonaiuto, Carla Fioravanti, Isabel Ruth.
Lontane Province Film, strada S. Maria 2, 10020 Casalborgone (To), ltaly, tel. +39-011-9174495, fax +39-011-4363613.
Menu