Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 94'
henry Rome. Nina is an aerobics teacher; the few people she goes around with are usually the wrong kind. Along with her immature, drug-addict boyfriend and her middle-aged friend, a former photographer who is always too cynical and too high, she finds herself involved in a feud between a gang of criminals from southern Italy and a gang of Africans who are trying to take over the heroin market. In the meantime, the three friends are suddenly accused of a double homicide which is being investigated by two police detectives. “My interest in making a film based on the book by Giovanni Mastrangelo was sparked by its representation of an obscure, interstitial universe, both fascinating and intricate, which I picked up on the very first time I read the book. The challenge in adapting it consisted in transforming the double register of the novel, made of dilated, interior exploration and sudden shots of action, into a clear cinematographic form. I set the film in the slums of a declining Roman Empire, a Rome made of non-Romans, in which everyone is an immigrant and feels like a fish out of water in their own city.” Website: www.piva.it/henry
Biography
film director
Alessandro Piva
Alessandro Piva (Salerno, Italy, 1966) got his start in directing after gaining experience as a photographer, film editor and screenwriter. After completing his studies at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, he began making documentaries in Italy and abroad. He won two special mentions at the Premio Solinas and then dedicated himself to feature films, debuting with LaCapaGira, which was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in 2000 and won numerous prizes, including a David di Donatello. His second film, Mio cognato, which was presented at the Locarno Film Festival, won three nominations for Silver Ribbons in 2004. In 2007, he tried his hand at opera and staged Il cappello di paglia di Firenze by Nino Rota. In 2008, he directed the TV series La scelta di Laura. Henry is his third film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Esercizi di stile (ep. Uno di più bravo me, cm, 1996), LaCapaGira (2000), Mio cognato (2003), Perotti Point (cm, doc., 2006), La scelta di Laura (tv, 2009), Henry (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, produttore/director, film editing, producer
Alessandro Piva
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Giovanni Mastrangelo
fotografia/cinematography
Lorenzo Adorisio
scenografia/production design
Marianna Sciveres
costumi/costume design
Carolina Olcese
musica/music
Andrea Farri
suono/sound
Marco Fiumara, Giorgio Ghisleni
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Carolina Crescentini (Nina), Claudio Gioè, Aurelien Gaya, Pietro De Silva, Paolo Sassanelli, Michele Riondino, Alfonso Santagata, Eriq Ebouaney, Dino Abbrescia, Vito Facciolla, David Coco, Max Mazzotta, Susy Laude, Sidy Diop, Roberta Fiorentini
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Seminal Film
TFF
prizes
