Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 75'
An Italian summer in black and white. Not very far away from the old border that divided Eastern and Western Europe there is Bibione. A little seaside resort of architectural style from the 60's which fills up with tourists. In the fast, dense flow of the redhot days of the summer sun, the people, natives and non-natives, young and old, work and live. In the background specks of summer life.
"When I was little I often went to Bibione for my holidays. When I was 20 I went back hitching down on my own. This time there was my girlfriend who was doing the summer season as a waitress. She worked during the day and often also in the evening and as such I often found myself waiting on her. I rarely went to the sea, I just walked around, in the end I got to know Bibione well. It seemed to me that I was in a little American town, not in Italy but in the end I found out that it wasn't true: Atlantic city is very different…" (Alessandro Rossetto).
Biography
film director
Alessandro Rossetto
(Padua, 1963) is a film writer, director, cinematographer, and cameraman. He has made documentaries that are considered some of the most significant of his generation (including Bibione Bye Bye One, 1999, and Chiusura, 2001, presented in competition at the Torino Film Festival; and The Colony (Vacanze di guerra), 2012). He debuted in fiction films in 2013 with Piccola patria (Small Homeland), presented at the Venice Film Festival, as was his next movie, Effetto Domino (2019). In 2021, he made The Italian Banker. This is how his work has been described by critics: “His cinematographic eye is priceless, full of curiosity and sensitivity. In his movies, with a mise-en-scène of rigor and poetry, he lets us encounter touching situations and people, showing us their intimate imagination, their view of the world, and their extraordinary, everyday life.”
FILMOGRAFIA
Il fuoco di Napoli (1997), Bibione Bye Bye One (1999), Chiusura (2001), Nulla due volte (cm, 2005), Feltrinelli (doc, 2006), L'orchestra di Piazza Vittorio: I diari del ritorno (doc, 2007), The Colony (Vacanze di guerra) (doc, 2012), Piccola patria (2013), Effetto Domino (2019), The Italian Banker (2021).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto: Alessandro Rossetto.
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi "Gogo".
Editor: Jacopo Quadri.
Sound: Marco Fiumara.
Production company: Alessandro Rossetto: via San Martino ai Monti 47/A, 00184 Roma, tel. +39-06-4817184, fax +39-06-4466038.
Co-production: ZDF Arte.
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi "Gogo".
Editor: Jacopo Quadri.
Sound: Marco Fiumara.
Production company: Alessandro Rossetto: via San Martino ai Monti 47/A, 00184 Roma, tel. +39-06-4817184, fax +39-06-4466038.
Co-production: ZDF Arte.