Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 104'
Caserta, 1976. Fausto is eighteen and wants to become a musician. After working with the Falasco orchestra, the impresario Raffaele Nigro offers him the chance to work for maestro Augusto Riverberi. But after the summer tour ends, he’s once again out of a job. In December Augusto calls him up. Fausto leaves for Milan, but once he arrives he doesn’t find anyone. Alone and out of money, he’s forced to sell his guitar and return to Caserta. But at Christmas Riverberi shows up at Fausto’s house with his guitar. “I came upon this story by chance and I immediately understood that I’d like to tell it because it talks about things I care about a lot. First of all, it’s the story of music, and my love for music is a central part of my life. Thanks to my encounter with Avion Travel, I began to feel that musical groups are like a community that, by playing together, becomes a family. Also, the story takes place in the 1970s, which is when I was young and I still remember as the years of ingenuity, in which you trust in the future and in others with a certain recklessness.”
Biography
film director
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
(Milan, Italy, 1957) graduated from the school of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan. His encounter with Gabriele Salvatores marked the turning point in his career, thanks to the films Marrakesh Express (1989) and Turnè (1990). In 1993 he won the Coppa Volpi in Venice for A Split Soul by Silvio Soldini and then works with Michele Placido (Ordinary Hero, 1995), the Taviani brothers (The Elective Affinities, 1996), Theo Angelopulos (Eternity and a Day, 1998), Marco Bellocchio (The Nanny, 1999) e Carlo Mazzacurati (Holy Tongue, 2000). He worked with Salvatores once again in Teeth (2000), and then he starred in Remember Me (2003) by Gabriele Muccino, Love Returns (2004) and La terra (2006) by Sergio Rubini and The Family Friend (2006) by Paolo Sorrentino. Lascia
perdere, Johnny!, his first feature-length film, was made eight years after his directing debut, the medium-length film Tipota (1999).
FILMOGRAFIA
Tipota (mm, 1999), Lascia perdere, Johnny! (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Fabrizio Bentivoglio
soggetto/story Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Umberto Contarello, Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculiano
sceneggiatura/screenplay Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Umberto Contarello, Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculiano, Valia Santella
fotografia/director of photography Luca Bigazzi
scenografia/set design Giancarlo Basili
costumi/costume design Ortensia De Francesco
montaggio/film editor Esmeralda Calabria
musica/music Fausto Mesolella
suono/sound Francesco Cucinelli, Lillo Rosato
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Antimo Merolillo (Fausto), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Augusto Riverberi), Ernesto Mahieux (Raffaele Nigro), Lina Sastri (Vincenza), Peppe Servillo (Gino Glory), Valeria Golino (Annamaria), Toni Servillo (Domenico Falasco)
produttore/producer Domenico Procacci
produzione/production Fandango
coproduzione, distribuzione/coproduction, distribution Medusa Film
vendita all’estero/world sales Fandango Portobello Sales
soggetto/story Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Umberto Contarello, Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculiano
sceneggiatura/screenplay Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Umberto Contarello, Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculiano, Valia Santella
fotografia/director of photography Luca Bigazzi
scenografia/set design Giancarlo Basili
costumi/costume design Ortensia De Francesco
montaggio/film editor Esmeralda Calabria
musica/music Fausto Mesolella
suono/sound Francesco Cucinelli, Lillo Rosato
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Antimo Merolillo (Fausto), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Augusto Riverberi), Ernesto Mahieux (Raffaele Nigro), Lina Sastri (Vincenza), Peppe Servillo (Gino Glory), Valeria Golino (Annamaria), Toni Servillo (Domenico Falasco)
produttore/producer Domenico Procacci
produzione/production Fandango
coproduzione, distribuzione/coproduction, distribution Medusa Film
vendita all’estero/world sales Fandango Portobello Sales
