Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 85'
Damiana dumps the Angolan director Mariano Bartolomeu on Nicola. The days become months and Mariano won't leave, in fact, he becomes ever more firmly entrenched in Nicola's life, even filming him with a television camera. But when Mariano decides to rework old films of Nicola's starring Laura, a girl who later left him, Nicola becomes furious and forces him to leave. But Nicola's peace and quiet is short-lived: Mariano has run over and killed a pedestrian with the motorbike he borrowed from Nicola. The two are forced back together because Mariano is granted house arrest ñ at Nicola's house. At this point Nicola is the one who leaves the apartment…
Biography
film director
Luca D'Ascanio
Luca D'Ascanio began his cinematographic career in the early 1990's as a screenwriter, working on various fiction films (Carogne by Enrico Caria, Le donne non vogliono più by Pino Quartullo, L'estate di Bobby Charlton by Massimo Guglielmi) and numerous television programs (Nebbia in Val Padana, Sotto il cielo dell'Africa, Un commissario a Roma). In 1993, he directed an episode ñ Ciao amore ñ of a collective film, 80 Metriquadri, that was presented at the festival in Venice. He later directed two episodes of Intolerance (Gli scrive dopo and Bleak). Bell'Amico is the first full-length film he has directed.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ciao amore (episodio, 1993), Gli scrive dopo (episodio, 1995), Bleak (episodio, 1995), Attenzione (22 microepisodi, TV, 1997), Raiplay (16 rielaborazioni di sceneggiati RAI, 1999), Bell'amico (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Luca D'Ascanio.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Luca D'Ascanio.
Director of photography: Federico Schlatter.
Art director: Gianni Silvestri.
Costume designer: Livia Mucchi.
Editor: Federica Lang.
Sound: Vittorio Tabacchini.
Cast and characters: Mariano Bartolomeu (Mariano), Luca D'Ascanio (Nicola), Rosalinda Celentano (Laura), Giorgio Tirabassi (Giorgio), Paola Cortellesi (Damiana), Cecilia Dazzi (Cecilia), Cinzia Mascoli (avvocato Panti), Francesca d'Aloja (Angelica).
Produttori: Marco Risi, Maurizio Tedesco.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Sorpasso Film, via G.L. Lagrange 16, 00197 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-80691057, fax +39-06-80691062, e-mail sorpassofilm@tin.it.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Luca D'Ascanio.
Director of photography: Federico Schlatter.
Art director: Gianni Silvestri.
Costume designer: Livia Mucchi.
Editor: Federica Lang.
Sound: Vittorio Tabacchini.
Cast and characters: Mariano Bartolomeu (Mariano), Luca D'Ascanio (Nicola), Rosalinda Celentano (Laura), Giorgio Tirabassi (Giorgio), Paola Cortellesi (Damiana), Cecilia Dazzi (Cecilia), Cinzia Mascoli (avvocato Panti), Francesca d'Aloja (Angelica).
Produttori: Marco Risi, Maurizio Tedesco.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Sorpasso Film, via G.L. Lagrange 16, 00197 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-80691057, fax +39-06-80691062, e-mail sorpassofilm@tin.it.