Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 111'
Giuseppe is an inveterate single man who makes up an imaginary girlfriend to escape the pressure of who wants to see him married. Thanks to a series of fortuitous coincidences that girl suddenly appears with Michela’s face, a young woman who Giacomo meets on the bus every morning. This is how a playful relationship takes place between the two, who chase each other from one side to the other of the ocean. Apparently there is no serious involvement from either side until, on the last date, the must choose what to do with their lives. “Once I was at Camilleri’s and I asked him: "How do you do it, your writing?", because I was curious to know his creative process. He told me he would simply write, from the first word to the last as if it were a letter, the important thing was to have a lot of confusion around him. On the contrary I sometimes start from the ending, then the beginning, then I jump to the middle. I’m from the computer generation so I move, cut, copy, paste. It’s more of a montage.” (Fabio Volo)
Biography
film director
Massimo Venier
Massimo Venier (Varese, Italy, 1967) started as a screenwriter for TV shows, working with the Gialappa’s Band on their show; in particular he wrote the script for Mai dire gol from 1990 to 1997. After that he focused on film: working as scriptwriter and director he cooperated in the writing and directed all the movies by the comedy trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo: Tre uomini e una gamba (1997), That’s Life (1998), Chiedimi se sono felice (2000), La leggenda di Al, John e Jack (2002). Together with them he also wrote the theater show Te chi el telun and on TV the Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo Show. Do you know Claudia? (2004) was the first full-length movie completely written by Venier alone; it was followed by I Trust You (2007), starring Ale and Franz. Together with them he also wrote the first edition of the TV show Buona la prima (Italia Uno, 2007), before directing The 1000 Euros Generation in 2009.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Tre uomini e una gamba (1997), Così è la vita (1998), Chiedimi se sono felice (2000), La leggenda di Al, John e Jack (2002), Tu la conosci Claudia? (2004), Mi fido di te (2007), Generazione mille euro (2009), Il giorno in più (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Massimo Venier
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo romanzo di/from the novel of the same title by Fabio Volo
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Michele Pellegrini, Federica Pontremoli, Massimo Venier, Fabio Volo
fotografia/cinematography
Paolo Carnera
montaggio/film editing
Walter Fasano
scenografia/production design
Valentina Ferroni
costumi/costume design
Silvia Nebiolo
musica/music
Paolo Buonvino, Giuliano Taviani
suono/sound
Roberto Mozzarelli
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Fabio Volo (Giacomo), Isabella Ragonese (Michela), Pietro Ragusa (Dante), Camilla Filippi (Silvia), Irene Ferri (Alice), Jack Perry (Tom), Stefania Sandrelli (la madre di Giacomo/Giacomo’s Mother), Lino Toffolo (Fausto), Luciana Littizzetto (Boldrini), Valeria Bilello (Alessia), Roberto Citran (Ricardi), Stella Pecollo (Chantal)
produttore/producer
Beppe Caschetto
produzione/production
Ibc
coproduzione/coproduction
Rai Cinema
distribuzione/distribution,
01 Distribution
vendita all’estero/world sales
Rai Trade
