Country: Italy
Year: 1989
Duration: 82'
love in progress Bianca and Anna are at a house out in the country, studying for an exam. Bianca confesses to her friend that she has invited over Cesare, a young man she is in love with and who Anna also likes, thus sparking her friend’s jealousy. But Cesare doesn’t show up. Instead, Daniela arrives and says she is Cesare’s girlfriend. Bianca and Anna put their jealousy aside and gang up against Daniela, finally forcing her to leave. The two girls are left alone and discover that their friendship is much stronger than they thought. “This might be my happiest film. To me, Love in Progress is a unique experience; it’s very similar to the way I feel, because of the productive logic with which I made it and for the type of film that it expresses. A film that fully corresponds to how I’d like to be. But luckily, films (just like our feelings and our actions) can surprise us; they go their own way, they often take us somewhere different from what we expected or wanted; they reveal secret and hidden parts of us.”
Biography
film director
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Giuseppe Bertolucci (Parma, Italy, 1947) debuted in films in 1970 as assistant director for the film The Spider’s Stratagem, directed by his brother Bernardo. In 1977 he directed his first feature film, Berlinguer: I Love You followed, three years later, by Lost and Found and by the documentary Panni sporchi. After Segreti, segreti (1984) and Tuttobenigni (1986), he then made Strana la vita (1988), I cammelli (1988) and Love in Progress (1989). In 1994 he directed Troppo sole and in 1999 Il dolce rumore della vita. In 2006 he presented the documentary Pasolini prossimo nostro at the Venice Film Festival and two years later, always at Venice, La rabbia di Pasolini.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
I poveri muoiono prima (mm, doc., 1971), Berlinguer ti voglio bene (1977), Panni sporchi (tv, doc., 1980), Oggetti smarriti (1980), Segreti, segreti (1984), L’addio a Enrico Berlinguer (collettivo/collective, doc., 1984), Tuttobenigni (1986), Strana la vita (1988), I cammelli (1988), Amori in corso (1989), La domenica specialmente (ep. La domenica specialmente, 1991), Troppo sole (1994), Il pratone del casilino (cm, tv, 1995), Il dolce rumore della vita (1999), L’amore probabilmente (2001), Luparella (2002), Il mal di denti (cm, 2003), Pasolini prossimo nostro (doc., 2006), La rabbia di Pasolini (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Giuseppe Bertolucci
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Giuseppe Bertolucci, Mimmo Rafele, Lidia Ravera
fotografia/cinematography
Fabio Cianchetti
montaggio/film editing
Fiorella Giovannelli
scenografia/production design
Emita Frigato
costumi/costume design
Elisabetta Fazio
musica/music
Carlo Mayer
suono/sound
Tiziano Crotti
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Stella Vordemann (Bianca), Francesca Prandi (Anna), Amanda Sandrelli (Daniela)
produttori/producers
Ferdinando Villevieille, Flavia Villevieille
produzione/production
Mito Film, Rai Due
