29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 29

I PIÙ GRANDI DI TUTTI

THE REUNION - THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL
by Carlo Virzì
Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 100'


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

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