33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 33

MIA MADRE FA L'ATTRICE

MIA MADRE FA L'ATTRICE
by Mario Balsamo
Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 78'


A mother who is an exuberant, if not downright cumbersome presence (and then some), and a son who is a director and occasionally still blocked by her. Cinema becomes a way to find a rapport, perhaps even thanks to the woman’s past as an actress. She was an actress for a brief and not particularly memorable season: except for one film, in which, sixty years before, the woman had played her most important role and which, through the irony of fate, she never got to see. A gap which her son will fill. 

Biography

film director

Mario Balsamo

Mario Balsamo has been working since the late ’90s as a film and television director, involved above all in TV programs, press reports, documentaries and video musicals. His vast filmography includes Un mondo migliore è possibile, a group film with the participation of directors such as Ettore Scola, Mario Monicelli and Gillo Pontecorvo, Sotto il cielo di Baghdad, which he codirected with Stefano Scialotti, and Sognavo nuvole colorate, that was screened in Locarno, at the Bellaria Casa Rossa Award and in eleven national and international festival. In 2012 he partecipated at Torino Film Festival with We Are Nothing Like James Bond, which won the Jury Special Prize.

FILMOGRAFIA

Alvaro Siza, architetto (coregia/codirectors Francesco Maselli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Francesca Comencini, Pasquale Scimeca, doc., 1999), Un mondo migliore è possibile (coregia/codirectors AA.VV, doc., 2001), La zona rossa (cm, 2001), Porto Alegre (coregia/codirectors AA.VV, doc., 2002), Il villaggio dei disobbedienti (doc., 2002), Sotto il cielo di Baghdad (coregia/codirector Stefano Scialotti, doc., 2003), Storie arbëreshë (doc., 2006), Sognavo nuvole colorate (doc., 2008), Anima selvaggia (doc., 2011), Noi non siamo come James Bond (2012), Mia madre fa l’attrice (2015).

Declaration

film director

“My mother and I have one thing in common: we both left a bunch of things unfinished. But no, I’m wrong! We have another thing in common: cinema. I got my confusion between what’s real and what’s fake from her. My mother was an actress until she turned twenty-five. A few roles, minor ones, except for the last one in Barrier of the Law, with Rossano Brazzi; in the beginning she was supposed to have four scenes. But even that was left finished. One of the producers, who she rejected, had some of the scenes cut during the editing and so she left the set before it was finished, without seeing the final result… And she’d never seen it! Until now.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto/director, story
Mario Balsamo
da un’idea di/from an idea by
Silvana Stefanini
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Mario Balsamo, Michele Pellegrini
fotografia/cinematography
Simone Pierini
montaggio/film editing
Benni Atria
musica/music
Vittorio Cosma
suono/sound
Marco Saveriano, Stefano Sabatini, Davide Pesola
interpreti/cast
Silvana Stefanini, Mario Balsamo, Giò Nero, Adalberto Baldini, Desy Doni, Antonella Canali, Daniele Ferlisi, Marco Paccosi, Bernardo Castrichella, Marco Castrichella, Ornella de Falco, Fausto Visentini, Fiorella Di Raimo, Luciano Cavallaro, Emanuela Stefanini, Giorgio Stefanini
produzione/production
Hasenso Srl, Rai Cinema 
distribuzione/distribution
Bim


contatti/contacts
Bim
Federica De Sanctis
fdesanctis@bimfilm.com
www.bimfilm.com

Cineama
Francesco Notarangelo
francesco.notarangelo@cineama.it
www.cineama.it

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