33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015
RITORNO A SPOON RIVER
by FRANCESCO CONVERSANO, NENE GRIGNAFFINI
Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 104'
It has been a hundred years since Edgar Lee Masters published Spoon River Anthology. To commemorate it, in Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois, not far from Spoon River, people from these two communities read on camera some of the epitaphs from Masters’ work as a way to re-experience the atmosphere, moods, and feelings of rural, small-town America captured in the space and time of its many microcosms; but also in the way of expressing feelings, or in the little acts of courage and frailty that are part of life beyond time and space.
Biography
film director
Francesco Conversano
Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini (Italy), with their production company Movie Movie, have directed and produced over a hundred documentaries since 1980, participating to several renown national and international film festivals and receiving many awards. Their work is characterized by their research and experiments with different languages and narrative forms, which led them to choosing documentaries as the medium to tell the stories of our time. They won a David di Donatello in 2006 for Best Italian Documentary with Il bravo gatto prende i topi, in competition at CinemAmbiente. Over the last decade, the documentaries they directed explored the relationship between places and writing, global megalopolis, developing countries in Asia, the United States and the American way of life.
FILMOGRAFIA
Uno scrittore, una città (doc., 2001), Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia americana (tv, ep., doc., 2004), Buongiorno Cina (mm, doc., 2005), Nuove schiavitù (doc.), Taccuino indiano (mm, doc., 2006), Megalopolis (doc., 2008), Viaggetto sull’Appennino (mm, doc., 2009), Paesaggi con figure (doc., 2011), Muri (doc., 2012), Viaggetto nella pianura (doc., 2012), Muri (doc., 2012), La linea gialla. Bologna 2 agosto (doc., 2015), Ritorno a Spoon River (doc., 2015).
Nene Grignaffini
Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini (Italy), with their production company Movie Movie, have directed and produced over a hundred documentaries since 1980, participating to several renown national and international film festivals and receiving many awards. Their work is characterized by their research and experiments with different languages and narrative forms, which led them to choosing documentaries as the medium to tell the stories of our time. They won a David di Donatello in 2006 for Best Italian Documentary with Il bravo gatto prende i topi, in competition at CinemAmbiente. Over the last decade, the documentaries they directed explored the relationship between places and writing, global megalopolis, developing countries in Asia, the United States and the American way of life.
FILMOGRAFIA
Uno scrittore, una città (doc., 2001), Strade Blu. Storie dalla provincia americana (tv, ep., doc., 2004), Buongiorno Cina (mm, doc., 2005), Nuove schiavitù (doc.), Taccuino indiano (mm, doc., 2006), Megalopolis (doc., 2008), Viaggetto sull’Appennino (mm, doc., 2009), Paesaggi con figure (doc., 2011), Muri (doc., 2012), Viaggetto nella pianura (doc., 2012), Muri (doc., 2012), La linea gialla. Bologna 2 agosto (doc., 2015), Ritorno a Spoon River (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“The film is a poetry reading but also a journey through small-town America, beloved in film, literature and painting. The movie’s twenty-six scenes represent an equal number of daily microcosms, made of bodies, faces, spaces and objects, which live with us and survive us after we’re dead. Every object recalls a life, like in Carver’s short stories; every character follows the enchantment of Hopper’s paintings, here without color, searching for the intensity, the suspension, the mystery and the melancholy of the silence in those places.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini
soggetto/story
dal libro Antologia di Spoon River di/from the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
fotografia/cinematography
Roberto Cimatti
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound
Stefano Barnaba
musica/music
Andrea Carrieri, Gianni Lenoci
produzione/production
Movie Movie, Rai Cinema
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
Marlon Pellegrini
m.pellegrini@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.it
Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini
soggetto/story
dal libro Antologia di Spoon River di/from the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
fotografia/cinematography
Roberto Cimatti
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound
Stefano Barnaba
musica/music
Andrea Carrieri, Gianni Lenoci
produzione/production
Movie Movie, Rai Cinema
contatti/contacts
Cinecittà Luce
Marlon Pellegrini
m.pellegrini@cinecittaluce.it
www.cinecittaluce.it
