Country: UK
Year: 2012
Duration: 89'
London, 1962. Ginger and Rosa, two inseparable adolescents, feel oppressed by their respective mothers who, although very different, they consider equally narrow-minded: Anoushka, Rosa’s mother, is single and sloppy-looking, while Natalie, Ginger’s mother, is a seductive and frustrated painter who is married to the pacifist Roland. This atypical paternal figure, so romantic in the eyes of the two girls, encourages his daughter to pursue poetry and political protest during the Cuban missile crisis, but he will also be the cause of the first deep rupture between the two friends because of Rosa’s attraction to him.
Biography
film director
Sally Potter
Sally Potter (London, UK, 1968) debuted with the feature film The Gold Diggers (1983), which gained international attention. She later directed, for British TV, the episodes Tears and Rage for the documentary series Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage and for cinema I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (1988). Orlando (1992), a screen adaptation of the homonymous novel by Virginia Woolf, received numerous international recognitions, including two Oscar nominations, three prizes at the Venice Film Festival and a David di Donatello. Her next films were The Tango Lesson (1997), The Man Who Cried (2000), Yes (2004), Rage (2009).
FILMOGRAFIA
Jerk (cm, 1969), Play (cm, 1970), Hors d’œuvres (cm, 1971), Thriller (cm, 1979), The Gold Diggers (1983), London Story (cm, 1983), Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage: Tears (tv, doc., 1987), Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage: Rage (tv, doc., 1987), I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman (doc., 1988), Orlando (1992), The Tango Lesson (Lezioni di tango, 1997), The Man Who Cried (The Man Who Cried - L’uomo che pianse, 2000), Yes (2004), Rage (2009), Ginger & Rosa (2012).
Declaration
film director
“I’ve made a conscious decision to remove anything obstructing a direct experience of the film, so that hopefully each person can find themselves in it. For this reason, it is shot in a very direct way, and always in a singular way: the point of view of Ginger. The clarity of taking that position helped with a lot of decisions during the shoot and, of course, during the writing also.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Sally Potter
fotografia/cinematography Robbie Ryan
montaggio/film editing Anders Refn
scenografia/production design Carlos Conti
costumi/costume design Holly Waddington
suono/sound Jean-Paul Mugel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Elle Fanning (Ginger), Alessandro Nivola (Roland), Christina Hendricks (Natalie), Alice Englert (Rosa), Timothy Spall (Mark), Oliver Platt (l'altro Mark/Mark Two), Annette Bening (Bella), Jodhi May (Anoushka) produttori/producers Christopher Sheppard, Andrew Litvin
produzione/production Adventure Pictures
coproduttori/coproducers Peter Bose, Jonas Allen, Lene Bausager, Michael Weber
coproduzione/coproduction BFI, BBC Films, Danish Film Institute, Miso Film, The Match Factory
vendita all’estero/world sales The Match Factory
fotografia/cinematography Robbie Ryan
montaggio/film editing Anders Refn
scenografia/production design Carlos Conti
costumi/costume design Holly Waddington
suono/sound Jean-Paul Mugel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Elle Fanning (Ginger), Alessandro Nivola (Roland), Christina Hendricks (Natalie), Alice Englert (Rosa), Timothy Spall (Mark), Oliver Platt (l'altro Mark/Mark Two), Annette Bening (Bella), Jodhi May (Anoushka) produttori/producers Christopher Sheppard, Andrew Litvin
produzione/production Adventure Pictures
coproduttori/coproducers Peter Bose, Jonas Allen, Lene Bausager, Michael Weber
coproduzione/coproduction BFI, BBC Films, Danish Film Institute, Miso Film, The Match Factory
vendita all’estero/world sales The Match Factory
