17° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Competition 1999 - Fiction

UNA GIORNATA MERAVIGLIOSA

A MARVELLOUS DAY
by Carmelo Milone
Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 7'


At 7:30 a clock radio on a night table goes off. After that an unmade bed and various objects in a room are shown to us. The radio keeps on broadcasting commercials and horoscopes, but a tragic event takes place in that room.

"The idea for this short film came out of a discussion with three friends about a particular phase that our movie theaters are going through. Their programming is made up of a small percentage of decent or, in some cases, exceptional films as well as a great majority of films propped up by American special effects or Italian jokes. We reflected a lot on the original idea of cinema and on the idealization of time and space. Therefore I aimed to make this short film by limiting myself to using the long-distance lens to observe objects that are only apparently lifeless" (Carmelo Milone).

Biography

film director

Carmelo Milone

Carmelo Milone (Augusta, Siracusa, 1951) is a photographer and camera person. He has already made various independent audiovisual productions.

FILMOGRAFIA

Quattro passi con amore (1991), Ritorno alla vita (1992), La bomba (1993), Diritti dell'uomo e cinema (1993), Il nemico gentile (1993), Il nemico (1995), La bara (1995), Nosside (1996), Una giornata meravigliosa (1999).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Carmelo Milone.
Plot: Salvo Bellistri, Salvo Buono, Antonio Moschitto, Carmelo Milone.
Director of photography: Roberto Orrù.
Art director: Alfredo Vittorio.
Editor: Bruno D'Annunzio.
Production company: Carmelo Milone, c/o Alfredo Vittorio, via Scintu 58, 00173 Roma, Italia, tel. 0339/3044018.

TFF

prizes

AUDIENCE AWARD "ACHILLE VALDATA" 1999

Best Film in the Spazio Italia Competition

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