29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.DOC FUORI CONCORSO
ED E' COSI'. CIRCA. PIU' O MENO.
by Tonino De Bernardi
Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 104'
“’I have a horror of all professions. Owners and workers, all of them are bumpkins, ignoble. The hand that wields the pen is the equal of the hand that wields the plow,’ wrote Rimbaud. ‘It is quite obvious to me that I have always been of an inferior race.’ I say that I am not up to it, and yet I, too, search for an absolute, which is paradoxically relative, since it is mine. This is one of my most personal films under the heading ‘documentary.’ Delina, the old peasant woman, shows up in all my films. She is tied to the theme of the earth and the countryside. My cinema is dual/dualistic, of oppositions, between city and countryside, between traveling and remaining, between here and there, between male and female, affirmation and negation, day and night/light and dark, inside and outside, etc. So it is (or it isn’t). And it’s so. About. More or less clashes fatally at the end with a suspension, right at the moment in which, as I’m filming the external reality, so-called ‘life,’ I am trying to circumscribe it, define it. Sometimes film goes beyond the crossroads that make it and it delivers itself to us like the message in the bottle that has been at the mercy of the water and sea currents (the nth?).”
Biography
film director
Tonino De Bernardi
(Chivasso, Turin, Italy, 1937) was an underground filmmaker from 1967 to 1983. He shot his first “official” feature in 1987: the film Elettra (based on Sophocles’ tragedy), produced by RAI3, involved the participation of non-professional actors from Casalborgone, where he worked as a middle school teacher until 1992. Viaggio a Sodoma (1988) was the co-winner, with Jean-Luc Godard’s film, of the World Wide Video Festival in Den Hag. He participated at the Venice Film Festival in competition with Appassionate (1999), and in Orizzonti with Médée miracle (2007), starring Isabelle Huppert. A restless filmmaker overflowing with projects, he makes at least a film a year. In 2018, together with his wife Mariella, he’s also protagonist of Teresa Villaverde’s O termómetro de Galileu, presented at TFF, in Onde section, just like many others films of De Bernardis'.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dei (1968-1969), Il quadrato (1971-1972), Il rapporto coniugal parentale (1973-1976), L’io e le aggregazioni (1977-1979), Donne (1980-1982), Viaggio a Sodoma (1988), Piccoli orrori (1994), Fiori del destino (1997), Appassionate (1999), Rosatigre (2000), La strada nel bosco (2001), Farelavita (2001), Lei (2002), Le cinéma dans tous ses états (ep. Terra, cm, 2002), Serva e padrona (2003), Latitudini (2003), Marlene de Sousa (2004), Passato presente (2005), Accoltellati (Accoltellatori) (2006), Médée miracle (2007), Pane/Piazza delle camelie (2008), Butterfly - L’attesa (2010), Ed è così. Circa. Più o meno (2011), Casa dolce casa (2012), Hotel de l’Univers (2013), Jour et nuit - Delle donne e degli uomini perduti (2014), Il sogno dell’India - Quarant’anni dopo (2015), Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), Resurrezione (2019), Ou n'etes vous? (mm, 2022), Universi circoscritti 2 (2022).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, cinematography
Tonino De Bernardi
montaggio/film editing
Tonino De Bernardi, Giovanni Maderna
interpreti/cast
Franco Chiapino, Adelina Capone Chiapino, Mariella Navale, Nathaniel, Francesco, Teresa, Caterina, Tommaso, Giulia, Wellington, Tamara e/and Valentina Mele, Happy e/and Joy, Rita Zandarin, Manuela Giacomini
produttori/producers
Tonino De Bernardi, Mariella Navale
produzione/production
Lontane Province Film
vendita all’estero/world sales
Quarto Film
