Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 53'
Day and night in São Paulo. The night is long and the day never ends. It is full of voices and sounds. This is a map of images, an unnerving paradigm of the emotions I felt when I went around the streets of the city.
"I wanted to transform myself - in as much as this is possible for any foreigner - into the narrator of São Paulo in its many facets that are often of the most different - if not divergent - kind. However, Brazil is where I go back into my family history. There is that beloved maternal grandfather who immigrated to South America, and then there is his daughter, Vittoria, my mother's older sister who lived all her life there and is buried there. She was a mirage and a constant presence during all my childhood and adolescence. For this reason I also got the impression that always struck me that - finding myself in Brazil - I found myself among people that I have already known very well and that were very familiar to me" (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
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Tonino De Bernardi.
Editor: Fiorella Giovanelli Amico.
Cast: Filippo Timi, Daniel Chiaia, Joana Curvo, Plinio Mosca, Fernando Bonassi, Leon Cakoff, Maria De Medeiros, Betty Faria.
Production company and Italian distribution: Tonino De Bernardi per Lontane Province Film, via Serbelloni 38, 00176 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-2416245, e-mail toninodebernardi@libero.it.
Editor: Fiorella Giovanelli Amico.
Cast: Filippo Timi, Daniel Chiaia, Joana Curvo, Plinio Mosca, Fernando Bonassi, Leon Cakoff, Maria De Medeiros, Betty Faria.
Production company and Italian distribution: Tonino De Bernardi per Lontane Province Film, via Serbelloni 38, 00176 Roma, Italia, tel. e fax +39-06-2416245, e-mail toninodebernardi@libero.it.