Pluto, the rock band that began its story fifteen years ago in the small town of Rosignano Solvay in Tuscany, Italy: a traditional rock band composed by voice, guitar, bass and drums that actually recorded two albums and had a song in a popular commercial on TV. However, as often happens, internal tensions and contrasting ideas brought them to break up. Today its components have to face much more practical problems: someone is looking for a job, others have a family. For all of them the Pluto experience is definitely over, at least until a fan calls them up to shoot a documentary. “I’ve been waiting a lifetime for an Italian movie about a rock band; I don’t mean a documentary neither a biography, a fiction comedy telling the story of poor musicians having to deal with the utopia of rock’n’roll. Like those old movies that have inspired generations: The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980), The Commitments (Alan Parker, 1991), Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000) and many others. However I haven’t seen any around lately so I decided to make my own.”
Biography
film director
Carlo Virzì
Carlo Virzì (Livorno, Italy, 1972) started as lead singer and song writer for the Snaporaz, a group from the 1990s in Livorno, with whom he recorded three albums: Ovosodo e il ritorno della Micronite (1997), Tantalana! (1998), Salto con te (2001). In 1997 he was the Director’s assistant in Hardboiled Egg, of which he also wrote the soundtrack, as he did in the following movies Kisses and Hugs (1999), My Name Is Tanino (2002), Caterina in the City (2003) and The First Beautiful Thing (2010). Moreover in 2006 he debuted directing the full-length movie The Summer of My First Kiss of which he also wrote the script and the music. Nonetheless he wrote the script for the TV series I Liceali, which won the award for best screenplay at the Roma Fiumicino Fest.
FILMOGRAFIA
L’estate del mio primo bacio (2006), I più grandi di tutti (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, musica/director, screenplay, music
Carlo Virzì
soggetto/story
Andrea Agnello, Francesco Lagi
fotografia/cinematography
Ferran Paredes Rubio
montaggio/film editing
Simone Manetti
scenografia/production design
Roberto De Angelis
costumi/costume design
Cristina La Parola
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Claudia Pandolfi (Sabrina Cenci), Alessandro Roja (Loris Vanni), Marco Cocci (Maurilio «Mao» Fantini), Corrado Fortuna (Ludovico Reviglio), Dario Cappanera (Rino Falorini), Catherine Spaak (Esmeralda Reviglio), Frankie Hi-Nrg Mc (Saverio), Claudia Potenza (Simona Vanni), Niccolò Belloni (Alessio Vanni)
produttori/producers
Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib, Carlo Virzì, Paolo Virzì
produzione/production
Indiana Production Company, Motorino Amaranto, Eagle Pictures, RaiCinema
distribuzione/distribution
Eagle Pictures
vendita all’estero/world sales
Indiana Production Company