Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 30
"Patrizia Cavalli is one of the greatest living poets today. To listen to her recite her poetry is an unforgettable experience. On May 4, 2005, there were over two thousand paying spectators at the Auditorium in Rome to listen to a reading by her. From the stage lights to the natural light of her house in Campo de' Fiori, in Rome. A long house, like a train, where Patrizia has lived and worked for many years and where each one of her rooms - like the stanzas of her verses - becomes a stage for her truly original flashes of euphoria or melancholy. [...] "I have an exceptional friend who writes and says exceptional things. I couldn't resist the temptation of using my movie camera to film one of her splendid readings at the Auditorium in Rome. I also asked permission to film her in her house, in the sunny secret of her rooms. I felt that her body and her words were enough to fill the screen." (R. De Francesco)
Biography
film director
Roberto De Francesco
Roberto De
Francesco (Caserta,
1964) performs in cinema,
theater and television. He has worked with Toni Servillo, Mario
Martone, Carlo Cecchi,
Giuseppe Piccioni, Stefano Incerti, Francesco Calogero, Tonino De
Bernardi, Pasquale
Pozzessere, Daniele
Luchetti,
Riccardo Milani and Nanni
Moretti, among others. He is the author of the subject and the
screenplay of
the film Il Tuffo (Massimo
Martella, Best first work at Venice in 1993). He has directed two
shorts, L'Amico
(first place at Cinema Giovani Festival in
1994) and Pugni
nell'aria (which competed at
Venice in 1999).
FILMOGRAFIA
L'amico
(cm, 1994), Pugni
nell'aria (cm,
1999), Patrizia Cavalli - Stanze e versi (mm,
2005).