Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 123'
A young woman wanders down an endless corridor, while other people knock at a door at night. A man takes a picture of Montmartre, two women hand him some money, while a patron manages from rue de Mhyra a network of Italian call girls. Adiba sings an ancient Moroccan song in a room full of children, while Vidya is performing her daily puja in Pune (India). Giuli sings to herself as she drives at night through Turin and runs to the station at day. Parallel stories where every character is caught “in a situation,” closed.
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).
Declaration
film director
“This is a swaying film on the voice-destiny, suspended like every search and every one of us, suspended like a convict waiting to die in prison, or like someone (perhaps imprisoned as well?) looking for work to survive. This film is a sort of “debt” to all the people who participated for free, who supported me, and who help me stay suspended in life, mine and others' (or who help me enter it…), first and foremost Lou Castel, followed by Alberto Momo (who was fundamental for the editing). My form of cinema is a Utopia born from the desire to understand the world against the injustices of the present.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, cinematography
Tonino De Bernardi
montaggio/film editing Alberto Momo
interpreti/cast Joana Preiss, Lou Castel, Olivia Corsini, Serge Lai, Joel Brisse, Catherine Libert, Giulietta De Bernardi, Enrica Brizi, Enrico Ghezzi, Philippe Dijon, Gabriella, Sandra Ammendola, Antonella Basile, Rosanna Paradiso, Marianna Barbaro, Enza Barresi, Angela Serpico, Caterina Scordo, Marianna Moretti, Silvia Palermo, Antonio Gliozzi, Adiba Lemrabet, Joana Curvo, Chiara Pauluzzi, Carla Fausone, Marie Vic Debré, Vidya Purandare, Marie Vermillard, Abel Ferrara produzione/production Lontane Province Film
montaggio/film editing Alberto Momo
interpreti/cast Joana Preiss, Lou Castel, Olivia Corsini, Serge Lai, Joel Brisse, Catherine Libert, Giulietta De Bernardi, Enrica Brizi, Enrico Ghezzi, Philippe Dijon, Gabriella, Sandra Ammendola, Antonella Basile, Rosanna Paradiso, Marianna Barbaro, Enza Barresi, Angela Serpico, Caterina Scordo, Marianna Moretti, Silvia Palermo, Antonio Gliozzi, Adiba Lemrabet, Joana Curvo, Chiara Pauluzzi, Carla Fausone, Marie Vic Debré, Vidya Purandare, Marie Vermillard, Abel Ferrara produzione/production Lontane Province Film
