Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 12'
milonga A few couples are twirling on the dance floor at a milonga. An elderly man is sitting by himself at a table near the dance floor; he watches them as he drinks and slowly smokes a cigarette. He looks at a mysterious woman dressed in white who is sitting on the other side of the room. A young man enters and walks straight over to her. Between a puff of his cigarette and a sip of his drink, the man watches them as they interact, their skirmishing, until he decides to play a part in that story he knows nothing about but which fascinates him. “The tango is a dance of improvisation; there is no predetermined series of steps on the dance floor. It’s all up to the imagination of the dancers to construct their dance, like a dialog. Body language is a fundamental aspect of the tango in order to be able to improvise. Two tango dancers are like two individuals who are intimately and subconsciously talking with each other. I adore to watch the couples as they dance and try to guess something about them from their movements, from the way they hold or look at each other.”
Biography
film director
Marco Calvise
Marco Calvise (Italy, 1983) graduated in the study and technique of the performing arts from Rome’s La Sapienza university. He began his activity as an actor and dancer in theater and later dedicated himself more specifically to film and photography and made a number of shorts. He has participated in several films as production secretary and director’s assistant. He worked as assistant director on the set of the fiction film L’incantatore di serpenti, la vita senza freno di Gian Carlo Fusco by Salvatore Allocca.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Absurdo (cm, 2001), Piedi (cm, 2002), La botte di Amontillado (cm, 2003), Berenice (cm, 2004), L’appuntamento (cm, 2006), Equinozi (cm, 2007), Milonga (cm, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Marco Calvise
fotografia/cinematography
Timoty Aliprandi
montaggio/film editing
Serena Dovì, Marco Calvise
scenografia/production design
Valerio Barbet
costumi/costume design
Flavia Figà Talamanca
interpreti/cast
Phlippe Guastella, Maria Victoria Arenillas, Leonardo Felix Elias, Marco Spaziani, Vincenzo De Luca
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
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