Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 15'


The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, at the Champs Elysées in his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, sees widowed baronesses and pushers, and finally manages to set up his moment of intimacy with Ariel Bachini, famous film star, but…

Biography

film director

Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino (Naples, 1970) directed the short film, Un paradiso, which was in the final competition at the 1995 Festival Palermo Cinema 1995. In 1996 he co-authored, along with Antonio Capuano, Polvere di Napoli, a film directed Capuano himself. In 1997 he won "ex-aequo" the Solinas award for his screenplay, Napoletani. His L'uomo in più, was presented in the Cinema of the Present competition at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Un paradiso (cm, 1994), L'amore non ha confini (cm, 1998), L'uomo in più (cm, 2001), La notte lunga (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Paolo Sorrentino.
Plot: 2° classe elettrauto della scuola Amoretti di Milano.
Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino, Anna Mittone.
Director of photography: Mario Amura.
Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli.
Sound: Saverio Mascolo.
Art director: Lino Fiorito.
Costume designer: Lilla Angellotti.
Cast: Roberto De Francesco, Chiara Caselli, Giovanni Esposito.
Production company: Nicola Giuliano e Francesca Cima per Indigo Film, corso Europa 72, 80127 Napoli, Italia, tel. +39-081-412875 407506, fax +39-081-402939, e-mail indigo.film@tiscalinet.it, in collaborazione con Comune di Milano.
Co-production: Progetto per la lotta alle tossicodipendenze, Tele+.
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