Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 55'


A journey into the world of bullfighting.

"The aim of this documentary is to try to put aside the prejudices and common place expressions that prevail in this very singular form of art. The bullfight is the only art form in which the artist is in mortal danger and in which the degree of bravura in its exercise is left to the honor of the artist. This person does not ever manage to see the work of art he is creating. He or she has no chance to correct it, like the painter or the writer. He cannot listen to it, like the musician. He can only feel himself inside and hear the reactions of the crowd" (Francesca d'Aloja).

Biography

film director

Francesca D'Aloja

Francesca d'Aloja, stage and screen actress, has acted in numerous films with famous directors, including Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta, Ferzan Ozpetek's Il bagno turco - Hamam, Marco Risi's L'ultimo Capodanno and Tre mogli, and Ettore Scola's La cena. She presented her film about bullfighting, Sol y sombra, at the Italian Spotting Documentary section of the 1999 Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Piccoli ergastoli (1997, co-regia Pablo Echaurren e Valerio Fioravanti), Sol y sombra (1999), Break on Through (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto: Francesca d'Aloja.
Screenplay: Francesca d'Aloja, Giovanni Giommi.
Director of photography: Javier Gil. Editor: Mauro Bonanni.
Production company: Sorpasso Film, via Lagrange 16, 00197 Roma, tel. +39-06-80691071, fax +39-06-691062, e-mail sorpassofilm@tin.it.
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