Country: USA, UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 94'
127 hours The mountain climber Aron Ralston has to try to save himself after a gigantic rock falls on his arm and traps him in a canyon in Utah. Over the next five days, Ralston is at the mercy of the elements and must find the courage to carry out an extreme act in order to escape an increasingly critical situation. During the difficult hours that will lead to his salvation the man has the time to think back to his friends, his lovers, his family and the two climbers he encountered shortly before the accident. “I think we all would do anything we could for this life that is so beautiful and keeps us going. I think what Aron experienced in that canyon was a sudden realization of the full value of life. One of the ideas of the film is that he was never really alone in the canyon. Physically, he very much was, but he was surrounded spiritually by everyone he’d ever known or loved or dreamed about.”
Biography
film director
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (Manchester, United Kingdom, 1956) worked in theatre and television before he began to direct for the cinema. Shallow Grave (1994) was his first feature film but the breakthrough came with his second feature, Trainspotting (1996). After A Life Less Ordinary (1997) and The Beach (2000), he experimented different genres, like horror in 28 Days Later (2003), comedy in Millions (2004) and sci-fi with Sunshine (2007). In 2008 with Slumdog Millionaire he won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as eight Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Scout (mm, tv, 1987), The Venus de Milo Instead (mm, tv, 1987), The Nightwatch (mm, tv, 1989), For the Greater Good (tv, 1991), Mister Wroe’s Virgins (ep. Leah’s Story, Joanna’s Story, Hannah’s Story, mm, tv, 1993), Shallow Grave (Piccoli omicidi tra amici, 1994), Trainspotting (id., 1996), A Life Less Ordinary (Una vita esagerata, 1997), Alien Love Triangle (cm, 1999), The Beach (id., 2000), Strumpet (tv, 2001), Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise (tv, 2001), 28 Days Later (28 giorni dopo, 2003), Millions (id., 2004), Sunshine (id., 2007), Slumdog Millionaire (The Millionaire, 2008), 127 Hours (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Danny Boyle
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel Between a Rock and a Hard Place di/by Aron Ralston
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
fotografia/cinematography
Enrique Chediak, Anthony Dod Mantle
montaggio/film editing
Jon Harris
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design
Suttirat Anne Larlarb
musica/music
A.R. Rahman
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
James Franco (Aron Ralston), Kate Mara (Kristi), Amber Tamblyn (Megan), Treat Williams (il padre di Aron/Aron’s Father), Kate Burton (la madre di Aron/Aron’s Mother), John Lawrence (Brion)
produttori/producers
Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, John Smithson
coproduttori/coproducers
Tom Heller, Gareth Smith
distribuzione/distribution
Twentieth Century Fox Italia
vendita all’estero/world sales
Fox Searchlight Pictures
