Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Duration: 98'
Edoardo is a composer who, after a period of refusing everything around him and an ensuing creative crisis, leaves Italy and moves to a village in Spain. The lovely atmosphere of the place, the company of authentic and good-natured people and his participation in the local choir manage to defeat the aura of negativity behind which he is hiding himself. Edoardo finds the energy to start writing music again, the music which most resembles him and which will help him reconcile himself with his country.
Biography
film director
Anna di Francisca
Anna Di Francisca (Italy) after completing her studies at DAMS, received a degree in directing and worked as script supervisor and assistant director for Giuseppe Bertolucci, Federico Bruno, Ansano Giannarelli and Gianni Amelio. After various TV productions and commercials, she debuted in directing with No Spring Chicken (1996), which was presented at the Venice Film Festival, received a mention for the Prix Europa in Berlin and was also nominated for a David di Donatello as best new director. In 1998, after collaborating on the TV series Un medico in famiglia, she made various documentaries, and for the theater she created and directed Le confidenze del pene with Gioele Dix, Neri Marcorè, Ugo Dighero and Augusto Fornari.
FILMOGRAFIA
Quando lo Stato uccide (doc., tv, 1991), Casa nostra (ep. 1-6, cm, tv, 1992), Felice (ep. 1-10, cm, tv, 1992), La bruttina stagionata (1996), Fate un bel sorriso (2000), Come estrellas fugaces (2012).
Declaration
film director
“Como estrellas fugaces is a choral story, with ironical overtones, which follows the vicissitudes of five characters, four women and a man. The women’s vivacity, so earthy and real, makes the characters believable and it’s easy to relate to them. The music is a counterpoint. Como estrellas fugaces is this, too: a tender and yet sarcastic look onto a universe which is female and eager for change and joy; which finds in singing the strength and the energy to rebel against adversity."
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Anna Di Francisca
sceneggiatura/screenplay Anna Di Francisca, Javier Muñoz, Giuseppe Furno, Valentina Capecci
fotografia/cinematography Duccio Cimatti
montaggio/film editing Simona Paggi
scenografia/production design Victor Molero
costumi/costume design Lena Mossum
musica/music Paolo Perna
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Miki Manojlovic (Edoardo), Maribel Verdú (Julia), Eduard Fernández (Emilio), Laia Marull (Victoria), Gloria Muñoz (Manuela), Hector Alterio (il generale/general), Manuela Mandracchia (Sara), Ana Caterina Morariu (Marta), Antonio Resines (il presentatore/ presenter), Serena Grandi (Irma), Neri Marcorè (Carlos)
produttore/producer Carlo Bernabei
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Heles Film Production
sceneggiatura/screenplay Anna Di Francisca, Javier Muñoz, Giuseppe Furno, Valentina Capecci
fotografia/cinematography Duccio Cimatti
montaggio/film editing Simona Paggi
scenografia/production design Victor Molero
costumi/costume design Lena Mossum
musica/music Paolo Perna
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Miki Manojlovic (Edoardo), Maribel Verdú (Julia), Eduard Fernández (Emilio), Laia Marull (Victoria), Gloria Muñoz (Manuela), Hector Alterio (il generale/general), Manuela Mandracchia (Sara), Ana Caterina Morariu (Marta), Antonio Resines (il presentatore/ presenter), Serena Grandi (Irma), Neri Marcorè (Carlos)
produttore/producer Carlo Bernabei
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Heles Film Production
