Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 60'
Parole povere is the collision between the eyes of a filmmaker and the words of a poet: she offers her gaze, he offers his identity. The camera looks for answers with doting discretion, the editing conveys without embellishments, the music turns into a narrative scansion, and Pierluigi’s story runs on the screen as it would in everyday life: his roots in Friuli and the personal stories told by his friends; the places and the memories; the dark shadow of 1976 and the silhouette of the mountains; the wheelchair, crippling the freedom of a sixteen-year-old boy and drawing, millimeter after millimeter, the freedom of a man. Of a poet. Of a warrior, mild and kind, who lives “between the last word spoken and the new one to be said.”
Biography
film director
Francesca Archibugi
Francesca Archibugi (Rome, Italy, 1960), after playing Ottilia in Affinità elettive (1979), directed by Gianni Amico, studied scriptwriting and film direction at the Experimental Cinematography Centre in Rome and at the school Ipotesi Cinema in Bassano. She received two David di Donatello awards and two Nastri d’argento for her debut feature Mignon Has Come to Stay (1988), a hit with the public and the critics alike. After Towards Evening (1990), featuring Marcello Mastroianni, she made The Great Pumpkin (1993), winning several awards, including the prize of the ecumenical jury at Cannes. She directed With Closed Eyes in 1994, and she presented The Pear Tree in Venice four years later. In 2001 she participated at the Cannes Film Festival with Tomorrow. After her experience in television directing the TV movie Renzo e Lucia, she made the features Flying Lessons (2007) and A Matter of Heart (2009), starring Antonio Albanese and Kin Rossi Stuart.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mignon è partita (1988), Verso sera (1990), Il grande cocomero (1993), Con gli occhi chiusi (1994), L’unico paese al mondo (cm, 1994), Ritratti d’autore (coregia/codirector aa.vv, ep., tv, 1996), La strana storia di Banda Sonora (doc., 1997), L’albero delle pere (1998), Domani (2001), Renzo e Lucia (tv, 2004), Gabbiani. Studio su Il gabbiano di Anton Cechov (doc., 2004), Lezioni di volo (2007), Questione di cuore (2009), Giulia ha picchiato Filippo (cm, 2012), Parole povere (mm, doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“I approached Pierluigi Cappello when he became my bedside table companion. We didn’t know each other, but were already intimate. His poems are full of images, I might even have dreamt some. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, about the motorcycle accident when he was sixteen, and that he spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There’s no trace of it in the poems: in his verses Pierluigi runs, and sometimes he flies.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Francesca Archibugi
FOTOGRAFIA
Debora Vrizzi
MONTAGGIO
Esmeralda Calabria
MUSICA
Battista Lena
SUONO
Francesco Morosini
INTERPRETI
Pierluigi Cappello
PRODUZIONE
Agherose, Dorino Minigutti, Tucker Film, Thomas Bertacche
COPRODUZIONE
Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche, Banca Popolare FriulAdria, Mittelfest di Cividale del Friuli
Francesca Archibugi
FOTOGRAFIA
Debora Vrizzi
MONTAGGIO
Esmeralda Calabria
MUSICA
Battista Lena
SUONO
Francesco Morosini
INTERPRETI
Pierluigi Cappello
PRODUZIONE
Agherose, Dorino Minigutti, Tucker Film, Thomas Bertacche
COPRODUZIONE
Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche, Banca Popolare FriulAdria, Mittelfest di Cividale del Friuli
