Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 110'
“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.
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
“There is never a real break between one of my films and the next one. Hotel de l’Univers continues Casa dolce casa (2012), but it is also different (otherwise, why make it?). It is the ideal trilogy ‘of so-called lost men and women,’ or rather, of women and of men who are lost. Prostitution and the commercialized body are the symbols of today’s world, and recall Marx’s Das Kapital. More than ever, it is an investigation for me, not in the sense of investigative cinema, but of cinema that questions our lifestyles. A prologue and five paths ‘from home toward,’ more or less paths of initiation in singing and music. Everyone in the movie is going somewhere and they all reveal something different, as they trace their path. Women and men oppose each other, ideally victims and executioners.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, FOTOGRAFIA, PRODUTTORE
Tonino De Bernardi
MONTAGGIO
Maicol Casale
INTERPRETI
Joana Preiss, Lou Castel, Joana Curvo, Enrica Brizi, Giulietta De Bernardi, Joel Brisse, Remy Heritier, Olivia Contini, Serge Nicolai, Fulvio Baglivi, Enrico Ghezzi
PRODUZIONE
Lontane Province Film
Tonino De Bernardi
MONTAGGIO
Maicol Casale
INTERPRETI
Joana Preiss, Lou Castel, Joana Curvo, Enrica Brizi, Giulietta De Bernardi, Joel Brisse, Remy Heritier, Olivia Contini, Serge Nicolai, Fulvio Baglivi, Enrico Ghezzi
PRODUZIONE
Lontane Province Film
