25° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Nelle tue mani

IN YOUR HANDS

Country: Italy

Year: 2007

Duration: 100'

Teo studies astrophysics. One evening he is hit by a car driven by Mavi, a girl of Slavic origins who stops to help him and then disappears. They meet up by chance once again and fall in love. The years pass. Teo and Mavi have gotten married and have a daughter, Caterina. But Mavi starts to act strangely and after a series of violent quarrels Teo decides to move back to his parents’ house and takes their daughter with him. Mavi, who finds herself alone, becomes even more emotionally unstable, a situation which is aggravated by her ambiguous relationship with her father.

“Mavi is an unstable girl who suffers from emotional problems. It all explodes when she feels abandoned. She seems like a destructive person, but in the end what prevails are her unique and infective vitality and generosity. It’s a primordial strength which Teo, a rational person, first tries to suppress and then runs away from, so as not to be overcome by it. But his separation from her makes him face up to his own limits. And to the mystery of chaos, that creates life and makes things move.”

FILM DIRECTOR

CAST & CREDITS

Biography

film director

Peter Del Monte

(San Francisco, 1943) graduated from the Centro Sperimentale with the film Fuori campo. He then dedicated himself to film critique and directed two films for Rai: Le parole a venire (1970) and Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1973). In 1975 he debuted in films with Irene, Irene, followed by L’altra donna (1980), which won the Special Jury Prize in Venice. He next made Sweet Pea (1981) and in 1982 won the prize for Best artistic contribution in Cannes with Invito al viaggio. In 1985 he directed Little Fires and in 1987 Julia and Julia, which he shot in electronic high definition. His next films were Ballet (1989) and Traces of an Amorous Life (1990). After a sixyear hiatus, he returned to the big screen with Traveling Companion (1996). His most recent films are La ballata dei lavavetri (1998) and Against the Wind (2000).

FILMOGRAFIA

Fuori Campo (1969), Le parole a venire (TV, 1970), Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (TV, 1973), Irene, Irene (1975), L’altra donna (1980), Piso pisello (1981), Invito al viaggio (1982), Piccoli fuochi (1985), Giulia e Giulia (1987), Étoile (1989), Tracce di vita amorosa (1990), Compagna di viaggio (1996), La ballata dei lavavetri (1998), Controvento (2000), Nelle tue mani (2007).

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto/director, story Peter Del Monte
sceneggiatura/screenplay Peter Del Monte, Michele Pellegrini
fotografia/director of photography Marco Carosi
scenografia/set design Nicola Pontrandolfo
costumi/costume design Valentina Stefani
montaggio/film editor Erika Manoni
musica/music Paolo Silvestri
suono/sound Marco Fiumara
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Kasia Smutniak (Mavi), Marco Foschi (Teo), Luisa De Santis (la madre di Teo/Teo’s mother), Severino Saltarelli (il padre
di Teo/Teo’s father), Luciano Bartoli (il padre di Mavi/Mavi’s father), Simona Caramelli (Laura), Alberto Cracco (Ugo), Gaetano Carotenuto (Juan), Riccardo Francia (Dario), Eleonora Solofra (Caterina), Naomi Abbrescia (Caterina) Alba Rohrwacher (Carla), Pier Francesco Poggi (il padre di Dario/Dario’s father), Marina Pennafina (la madre di Dario/Dario’s mother), Niccolò Benvenuti (Giorgio), Andrea Bruschi (l’editore/publisher), Carolina Levi (la ragazza in ospedale/girl in the hospital)
produttore/producer Roberto Levi, Matteo Levi, Bruno Tribbioli, Alessandro Bonifazi
produzione/production 11 Marzo cinematografica, Blue Film, CocaColor
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Teodora Film