Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 90'
The dramatic story of two twenty-year-olds, Stella and Eleonora (known as Lenni); a gas station and a snobby and very bourgeois mother who weighs on Lenni's life; on their love story and their desire to run away. Then, nighttime and an accident, or maybe it was a crime… a desperate flight, almost an odyssey, and the cumbersome corpse of the mother that needs to be done away with. Two opposite lives to escape from: Lenni - blond hair - a conventional and bourgeois life; Stella - green hair - no family and a life adrift.
"The gas station? A friendly oasis where the world goes to visit them without them having to go look for the world and the real escape is their love, simple, almost childlike, like the rainbow which appears and shimmers in the gasoline puddles in the gas station's mud" (Monica Stambrini).
Biography
film director
Monica Stambrini
biography Monica Stambrini was born in 1970 in Mountain View, California. She studied in Milan, where she received a diploma in cinematographic directing from CFP. She has worked in various capacities for many Italian directors and shot the making of the film L'assedio (1998) by Bernardo Bertolucci. She directed numerous short movies between 1991 and 1998, both on film and in video, and has participated at many Italian and international festivals. Between 1999 and 2000 she made six documentaries for RaiSatArte. Gas is her first full-length fiction film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rinvenimenti (cm, 1991), Riproduzioni (cm, 1992), Epitaffio (mm, 1993), Ambliopia-Punti di vista (cm, 1993), Vorrei urlare! (cm, doc., 1994), Animali domestici (cm, 1995), Monique publique (cm, 1997), Sshhh… (cm, 1998), Cent'anni di solitudine (videoclip, 1998), Raccontoduepunti (cm, 1998), Punti di vista - Steve della Casa (cm, doc., tv, 1999), 10minuti con George Segal (cm, doc., tv, 1999), Out of the House - Gerard Richter (cm, doc., tv, 1999), Made in Milan - Conversazione con Michele De Lucchi (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Conversazione con Vico Magistretti (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Conversazione con Marco Zanuso (cm, doc., tv, 2000), Benzina (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Monica Stambrini.
Plot: dal romanzo di Elena Stancanelli.
Screenplay: Monica Stambrini, Elena Stancanelli, AnneRitte Ciccone.
Director of photography: Fabio Cianchetti.
Art director: Alessandro Rosa.
Costume designer: Antonella Cannarozzi.
Editor: Paola Freddi.
Sound: Emanuele Cecere.
Music: Massimo Zamboni.
Cast and characters: Maya Sansa (Stella), Regina Orioli (Lenni), Mariella Valentini (la madre), Luigi Maria Burruano, Chiara Conti, Marco Quaglia, Pietro Ragusa.
Production company: Galliano Iuso per Digital Film, Via A. Chinotto 1, 00195 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-3207734, fax +39-06-3224896.
Foreign sales agent: Intra Film, via E. Manfredi, 15, 00197 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-8076428, fax +39-06-8076156, e-mail mail@intramovies.com.
Italian distribution: Lion-Lantia, via Corridoni 15, Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-37512743, fax +39-06-37512751.
Plot: dal romanzo di Elena Stancanelli.
Screenplay: Monica Stambrini, Elena Stancanelli, AnneRitte Ciccone.
Director of photography: Fabio Cianchetti.
Art director: Alessandro Rosa.
Costume designer: Antonella Cannarozzi.
Editor: Paola Freddi.
Sound: Emanuele Cecere.
Music: Massimo Zamboni.
Cast and characters: Maya Sansa (Stella), Regina Orioli (Lenni), Mariella Valentini (la madre), Luigi Maria Burruano, Chiara Conti, Marco Quaglia, Pietro Ragusa.
Production company: Galliano Iuso per Digital Film, Via A. Chinotto 1, 00195 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-3207734, fax +39-06-3224896.
Foreign sales agent: Intra Film, via E. Manfredi, 15, 00197 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-8076428, fax +39-06-8076156, e-mail mail@intramovies.com.
Italian distribution: Lion-Lantia, via Corridoni 15, Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-37512743, fax +39-06-37512751.