Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 45'
A young artist arrives in Turin and checks into the Hotel Roma, located in piazza Carlo Felice. He has the same room in which Cesare Pavese spent his final hours on a sultry day in August 1950. The artist would like to organize a reading performance in memory of the deceased author. But one morning as he reads the newspaper he discovers something that concerns him directly and that will keep him from carrying out his project.
"What emerges from this film, and what gives us a vivid and profound image of Pavese, is the soul of a city like Turin that is fully reflected in the soul of the author; the one blends into and is lost in the other" (Gianfranco Barberi).
Biography
film director
Gianfranco Barberi
Gianfranco Barberi (Turin, 1944) comes out in the 60's in the underground cinema in Turin with his first super8 at the festival New American Cinema. He is one of the founders of New Italian Cinema. From 1969 until 1978 he lives in Rome and works as scriptwriter for cinema and TV. The meeting with Mario Bava starts a real sodality: together they write several subjects and screenplays, like Ecologia per un delitto (1971) and Shock (1977). Back in Turin, in 1980 he makes several documentaries with social themes for the city Council and RAI Tre. From 1984 until 1993, together with Marco Di Castri, he founds the production company Cataloga and makes many documentaries on contemporary art. From 1999 until 2002 he has been the head organizer of the Doc competition for the Turin Film Festival
FILMOGRAFIA
Turchia, storia di un popolo oppresso (doc., 1976), Memorie del presente (1978), Ma non saremo che noi stessi ancora (doc. 1980), L'ombra del giorno (1982), Ouverture (doc., 1984), Now I Know Snow (doc., 1986), Joseph Beuys. A New Idea of Art (doc., 1987), Claes Oldenburg. Il corso del coltello (doc., 1987), Standing Sculpture (doc., 1988), L'abito della rivoluzione (doc., 1988), Michelangelo Pistoletto. I Have a Mirror, You Have a Mirror (doc., 1988), Donald Judd a Rivoli (doc., 1988), Daniel Buren. Del colore dell'architettura (doc., 1988), Jean Tiguely (doc., 1988), Jannis Kounellis. Bisogna avere una certezza immobile come una stella (doc., 1989), Dal cavalletto alla città. Arte Russa e Sovietica (doc., 1989), Magiciens de la Terre (doc., 1989), Mario Merz. Terra elevata (doc., 1990), Claudio Parmiggiani. Una scultura (doc., 1991), Scalabrun (1995), Felice Casorati. Conversazioni (doc., 1996), Christo. Coprire per riscoprire (doc., video, 1998), In viaggio con l'arte di Luigi Mainolfi (doc., 1999), Ritratto di un amico (mm, 2000), Marco Gastini: la mano aperta della pittura (doc., 2001), Mimmo Jodice: lo sguardo della mente (doc., 2001), Vincenzo Foppa, un protagonista del Rinascimento (doc., 2002), Requiem (doc., 2003).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Gianfranco Barberi.
Plot: Cesare Viel.
Director of photography: Luca Periotto, Gianfranco Barberi.
Editor: Giorgio Mari.
Music: Furio Di Castri, Roberto Regis.
Cast: Cesare Viel.
Production company: La Bottega dell'Immagine, corso Grosseto 350, 10151 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-4557905, e-mail gfr.barberi@tin.it., con il sostegno della Regione Piemonte.
Plot: Cesare Viel.
Director of photography: Luca Periotto, Gianfranco Barberi.
Editor: Giorgio Mari.
Music: Furio Di Castri, Roberto Regis.
Cast: Cesare Viel.
Production company: La Bottega dell'Immagine, corso Grosseto 350, 10151 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-4557905, e-mail gfr.barberi@tin.it., con il sostegno della Regione Piemonte.