A film about crossed paths that takes place in São Paulo, and Rio, Piemonte and
Paris. Betty, a soap opera actress, is looking for her twin sister Marlene,
kidnapped four years earlier, and became a prostitute. Filippo, an Italian in
Brazil, is in search of adventure. He meets Joana and Cristina, while in Italy,
Giuli, who is pregnant, writes him letters she can't send. There is a secret
life inside each one of them; the confessions repeat each other. The nameless
vagabond in front of the sea in Rio questions himself in silence about the world
beyond the ocean, night and day.
"A film about pathways, radiating from behind the many characters, beginning
with the two twins, Betty and Marlene, between São Paulo and Rio in Brazil. Many
lives cross paths between love and abandonment. Behind the images, the words
reveal another reality. A film about searching, looking out on the world, where
every person deceives himself by searching for the other without ever really
finding him… The editing alternates, as do the hearts and gazes.
A film about feelings, about different realities
and geographies." (T. 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).