21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Competition

Aspettando il treno

Waiting for the Train

Country: Italy
Year: 2003
Duration: 10


An old lady makes coffee, a man sleeps. He wakes up: he runs in vain to get the train that quickly leaves in front of him. He would like, he should leave: he asks to run away. He mimes, he repeats: he attempts suicide again - his obscure illusion. Other trains go by. In vain. Silence covers the noise of time: a white and pure light of two waiting souls (two non-realities?) covers the shadows of things. In the end they try a dance: they are youth and old age intertwined in a unique loving hug. Tenderness and obsession are not opposed anymore. This is why she now leaves. He is still sleeping, maybe he is redeemed, at last. And he doesn't dream anymore.

"During the lifetime of a human being there are two mysteries: birth and death. I have tried to narrate the paradox of this reciprocity. The old lady is a girl, an angel and the secret nightmare that imprisons the soul of the man. The man (the suicidal person) is the shadow of a dream where one can see the world and from which one will never wake up. Between the woman and the man runs a perfect bond that will not break. This bond is the style of the tale: its light, the cautious silence of vision" (C. McGilvray).

Biography

film director

Catherine Mc Gilvray

Catherine McGilvray (Rome, 1965) graduated in History of Theater from the University of Sapienza in Rome. She then received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematogerafia and specialized in writing for cinema and television at the A.F.T.R.S. in Sydney. She has worked for various years with the theatrical company Barberio Corsetti, and has translated literary texts. She is the author and commentator of radio programs for Rai RadioTre. L'iguana is her first full-length film.

FILMOGRAFIA

L'ospite (cm, 1991), La strada dei mobili stanchi (doc., 1991), Voci di pietra (doc., 1991), Il Cavaliere e la Morte (cm, 1992), Descrizione di una battaglia (doc., 1993), Templum Gentis Flaviae (doc., 1993), Parigi cambia (mm, 1994), L'Île Opéra-Renata Scotto (doc., 2000), Il treno per l'Opera (doc., 2001), Aspettando il treno (cm, 2003,L'iguana (2004).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/Director, story, screenplay: Catherine McGilvray
Fotografia/Director of photography: Vincenzo Marinese
Scenografia/Set design: Filippo de Luca, Anna Maria Magro
Montaggio/Film editor: Giovanni Ballantini
Suono/Sound: Vittorio Melloni
Interpreti/Cast : Francesco Siciliano, Vincenza Ronconi
Produttore/Producer: Cesare Landricina
Produzione/Production: Medialand Srl
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