Country: Italy
Year: 1975
Duration: 105'
Guido Boeri, a sixty-year-old judge from Florence, returns home
and discovers that his wife Irene, with whom he has lived for thirty
years in apparent harmony, is nowhere to be found. After spending
time on the Lago Maggiore he moves to Rome to live with his son
Silvano. When he learns of his wife’s death he leaves for Cividale, where
he attends her funeral and interrogates his sister-in-law and Nino,
a friend and confidant of Irene’s, to try and understand why she left
him. Instead, he finds himself having to come to terms with the
vacuity of his own existence.
“Irene, Irene was seen by about thirty thousand people. Then it came
out in France and people started talking about it. It has been discussed
a lot, perhaps because it belongs to a period in which there were few
decent debut films. Watching it again today, the acting strikes me as
rather scholastic. You can tell that the director is frightened by certain
unknown situations that an actor might present him with, as opposed
to an idea he had made a priori of the film. On the other hand, it’s
a film that clings tightly to a ‘figurative’ point of view.”
Biography
film director
Peter Del Monte
Peter Del Monte (San Francisco, California, USA, 1943) graduated from the Centro Sperimentale with the film Fuori campo and directed two films for RAI, before debuting in 1975 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 L’Invitation au voyage that participated in the competition at Cannes Film Festival. In 1985 he directed Piccoli fuochi and in 1987 Julia and Julia. His next films were Étoile (1989) and Traces of an Amorous Life (1990). After a six-year hiatus, he returned to the big screen with Traveling Companion (1996). He then realized La ballata dei lavavetri (1998), Against the Wind (2000) and Nelle tue mani (2007).
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 (Sweet Pea, 1981), L’Invitation au voyage (Invito al viaggio, 1982), Piccoli fuochi (1985), Giulia e Giulia (Julia and Julia, 1987), Étoile (1989), Tracce di vita amorosa (Traces of an Amorous Life, 1990), Compagna di viaggio (Traveling Companion, 1996), La ballata dei lavavetri (1998), Controvento (Against the Wind, 2000), Nelle tue mani (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story Peter Del Monte
sceneggiatura/screenplay Peter Del Monte, Gianni Menon
fotografia/cinematography Tonino Nardi
montaggio/film editing Alfredo Muschietti, Paolo Muzzi
scenografia/production design Stefano Provinciali
musica/music Paolo Renosto
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Alain Cuny (Guido), Olimpia Carlisi (Emilia), Sibilla Sedat (Alma), Maria Michi (Maria), Vania Vilers (Silvano), Francesco Carnelutti (Nino), Carlo Hinterman (Paolo), Laura De Marchi (Anna), Dieter Kopp (Heinrich)
produzione/production Cooperativa A.R.T.E.A.
sceneggiatura/screenplay Peter Del Monte, Gianni Menon
fotografia/cinematography Tonino Nardi
montaggio/film editing Alfredo Muschietti, Paolo Muzzi
scenografia/production design Stefano Provinciali
musica/music Paolo Renosto
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Alain Cuny (Guido), Olimpia Carlisi (Emilia), Sibilla Sedat (Alma), Maria Michi (Maria), Vania Vilers (Silvano), Francesco Carnelutti (Nino), Carlo Hinterman (Paolo), Laura De Marchi (Anna), Dieter Kopp (Heinrich)
produzione/production Cooperativa A.R.T.E.A.