Country: USA
Year: 2001
Duration: 83'
Two tragic-comic, parallel stories that take place in a university and a high school, yesterday and today. Following the lives of its young main characters, precariously balanced between hope and despair, the film talks about sex, racial problems, fame and exploitation. These are the stories of an aspiring writer and his girlfriend, an author, a director of documentaries and many others. Solandz made this film in response to criticism he received about his preceding works. Storytelling is a film about the idea of stories, both fiction and non-fiction.
Biography
film director
Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz was born in 1959 in Newark, New Jersey. He debuted in 1989 with a film entitled Fear, Anxiety & Depression, which was never shown in Italy. He became successful and gained international critical fame in 1996 with his second film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, which won prizes at both the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin. Two years later, he was awarded the FIPRESCI prize at the Festival of Cannes for Happiness. Storytelling was presented this year at Cannes in the section "Un certain regard".
FILMOGRAFIA
Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989), Welcome to the Dollhouse (Fuga dalla scuola media, 1996), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Todd Solondz.
Director of photography: Fred Elmes.
Art director: James Chinlund.
Editor: Allan Oxman.
Music: Belle & Sebastian.
Cast and characters: Selma Blair (Vi), Paul Giamatti (Toby), John Goodman (Marty), Mark Weber (Scooby), Noah Fleiss (Brady), Leo Fitzpatrick (Marcus).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Ted Hope, Christine Vachon per Good Machine, 417 Canal Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA, tel. +1-212-3439230, fax +1-212-3437412.
Co-production: Killer Films, New York.
Italian distribution: Key Films, via N. Tartaglia 16, 00197 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-80692052, fax +39-06-80691676, e-mail keyfilms@tin.it.
Director of photography: Fred Elmes.
Art director: James Chinlund.
Editor: Allan Oxman.
Music: Belle & Sebastian.
Cast and characters: Selma Blair (Vi), Paul Giamatti (Toby), John Goodman (Marty), Mark Weber (Scooby), Noah Fleiss (Brady), Leo Fitzpatrick (Marcus).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Ted Hope, Christine Vachon per Good Machine, 417 Canal Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA, tel. +1-212-3439230, fax +1-212-3437412.
Co-production: Killer Films, New York.
Italian distribution: Key Films, via N. Tartaglia 16, 00197 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-80692052, fax +39-06-80691676, e-mail keyfilms@tin.it.