31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIANA.CORTI/OUT OF COMPETITION

LA VITA ADESSO

LIFE TODAY
by Salvatore Mereu
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 17'


Luca is ten years old and lives alone with his father. The two share an intense relationship but there is something that makes Luca’s life different from that of the other children his age: his father has Alzheimer’s. After days of moments of great tension and affectionate complicity, the two are forced to part.

Biography

film director

Salvatore Mereu

Salvatore Mereu (Dorgali, Nuoro, Italy, 1965), after studying at DAMS and the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, directed a number of shorts and, in 2003, his first feature film, Ballo a tre passi, which received an award at the International Critics Week at the 60th Venice Film Festival, as well as a David di Donatello for best new director. His next movie, Sonetàula, participated in the Panorama section of the 2008 Berlinale and won three Golden Globes, including the Foreign Press Grand Prize. Tajabone (2010), which he made after a teaching project with students of two middle schools in Cagliari, was presented at the 67th Venice Film Festival, as was Bellas mariposas, which competed in the Orizzonti section in 2012. He founded the production company Viacolvento in 2006.

FILMOGRAFIA

Prima della fucilazione (cm, 1997), Miguel (cm, 2000), Ballo a tre passi (2003), Il mare (cm, 2005), Sonetàula (2008), Tajabone (2010), Bellas mariposas (2012), Transumanza (cm, 2013), La vita adesso (cm, 2013).

Declaration

film director

“Luca’s story was inspired in the heat of the moment by an episode of lived life: the vicious progression of an illness and how it can dramatically make roles change; a kid, who has to parent his own father, who has turned into a child. The story was so heartwarming, verging on irresponsible. Since we lacked direct experience, what really pushed us was the pleasure of trying to tell a story, attempting (not without perils) to capture and convey our feelings when we first heard the story from Martina Manca. Meeting Laurent, the kid who could make it possible, did the rest.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Salvatore Mereu
SOGGETTO
Martina Manca
SCENEGGIATURA
Martina Manca, Salvatore Mereu
FOTOGRAFIA
Francesco Nonnoi
MONTAGGIO
Andrea Lotta
SCENOGRAFIA
Gabriel Lasio
COSTUMI
Cristina Cuboni
INTERPRETI
Laurent Gagné, Gianfranco Cudrano, Andreana G. Raffaellu
PRODUTTORE
Antioco Floris
PRODUZIONE
Celcam, Viacolvento
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