Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 98'
This film tells three different love stories, or alleged love stories, or, nevertheless, stories of sentimental relationships set in the Lazio countryside, Rome, and Naples. This is the reiteration - in different days and in different places - of an encounter among three people that (perhaps) may turn out to be fatal.
"I look for the dark, blackness, and the night. To romance the shadows - I would stay in the shadows if they would let me, but they will not let me. This is about romancing the shadows. This is about something else, but it is about keeping up the strength to believe always and not to fall back down flat on my face, to fall down backwards into the formless darkness" (Tonino De Bernardi).
Biography
film director
Tonino De Bernardi
(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director and director of photography: Tonino De Bernardi.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Tonino De Bernardi, Donatello Fumarola, Alberto Momo.
Art director: Lino Fiorito.
Editor: Pietro Lassandro.
Sound: Giuseppe D'Amato.
Cast: Filippo Timi, Antonella Paolini, Gian Filippo Mattioli, Donatello Fumarola, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, Alessandro Pasini, Giulietta De Bernardi, Federico Ercole, Alberto Momo, Santino Esposito, Teresa Momo.
Production company: Tonino De Bernardi e Pietro Lassandro per Lontane Province Film, via Serbelloni 38, 00176 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-2416245, e-mail toninodebernardi@libero.it.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Tonino De Bernardi, Donatello Fumarola, Alberto Momo.
Art director: Lino Fiorito.
Editor: Pietro Lassandro.
Sound: Giuseppe D'Amato.
Cast: Filippo Timi, Antonella Paolini, Gian Filippo Mattioli, Donatello Fumarola, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, Alessandro Pasini, Giulietta De Bernardi, Federico Ercole, Alberto Momo, Santino Esposito, Teresa Momo.
Production company: Tonino De Bernardi e Pietro Lassandro per Lontane Province Film, via Serbelloni 38, 00176 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-2416245, e-mail toninodebernardi@libero.it.