Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Duration: 90'
A Sunday in May, people are counting down the hours at Carolina’s house. The next day they will have to publicly take part in the collective emotionalism which has overwhelmed a small seaside town: Mauro Secondari, a young factory worker, fell and died on the job. And ever since this happened, his companion Carolina is on her own, with a ten-year-old son, and she finds it almost impossible to despair over having lost the love of her life. Why is she unable to cry? Why isn’t she going crazy with pain? The funeral is the next day and everybody is expecting to see a young, distraught widow. Carolina cannot and must not disappoint anyone, above all herself.
Biography
film director
Valerio Mastandrea
Valerio Mastandrea (Rome, 1972), director, screenwriter, and versatile and eclectic actor, debuted on the silver screen in 1994 in The Film Thief by Piero Natoli. In 1997, he won the Grolla d’oro and a Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival with We All Fall Down by Davide Ferrario. His film career is matched by his theatrical career, during which he has stood out in many roles, such as that of Rugantino, in the same-titled play by Garinei and Giovannini. He has performed in many films by nationally and internationally famous directors, including Viola Kisses Everybody (1997) by Giovanni Veronesi, A Perfect Day (2008) by Ferzan Ozpetek, and Pasolini (2014) by Abel Ferrara. In 2010, he won a David di Donatello for his performance in The First Beautiful Thing by Paolo Virzì, and won the award again in 2013 with Balancing Act (2012) and Long Live Freedom, and in 2017, with Fiore. He debuted as a director in 2005 with the short film Trevirgolaottantasette. Ride is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Trevirgolaottantasette (cm, 2005), Ride (2018).
Declaration
film director
“I want and need to feel bad. It’s my right.” When people say things like this, you can be sure they are in difficulty. Not because their desire is associated with feeling bad but because they are declaring their right to pain, and therefore, to a pain which someone or something is denying them. In this era of ours - in particular, these past thirty years – we can see and hear everything; this exponentially amplifies our perception of the world and, at the same time, it weakens our emotional reaction to everything we encounter. This regards the nice things but also the things which make us suffer. During these years characterized by a constant search for happiness, we must also ask for permission to feel suitably bad. If you think about it, it’s logical. Only by living inside darkness can we let ourselves be blinded by a love for life.
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Valerio Mastandrea
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Valerio Mastandrea, Enrico Audenino
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Fastella
montaggio/film editing
Mauro Bonanni
scenografia/production design
Marta Maffucci
costumi/costume design
Olivia Bellini
musica/music
Riccardo Sinigallia, Emiliano Di Meo
suono/sound
Gianluca Costamagna
interpreti/cast
Chiara Martegiani (Carolina), Renato Carpentieri (Cesare), Stefano Dionisi (Nicola), Arturo Marchetti (Bruno), Milena Vukotic (Ada), Mattia Stramazzi (Ciccio)
produttori/producers
Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola
produzione/production
Kimerafilm, Rai Cinema
**
contatti/contacts
01 Distribution
info@01distribution.it
www.01distribution.it
Valerio Mastandrea
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Valerio Mastandrea, Enrico Audenino
fotografia/cinematography
Andrea Fastella
montaggio/film editing
Mauro Bonanni
scenografia/production design
Marta Maffucci
costumi/costume design
Olivia Bellini
musica/music
Riccardo Sinigallia, Emiliano Di Meo
suono/sound
Gianluca Costamagna
interpreti/cast
Chiara Martegiani (Carolina), Renato Carpentieri (Cesare), Stefano Dionisi (Nicola), Arturo Marchetti (Bruno), Milena Vukotic (Ada), Mattia Stramazzi (Ciccio)
produttori/producers
Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola
produzione/production
Kimerafilm, Rai Cinema
**
contatti/contacts
01 Distribution
info@01distribution.it
www.01distribution.it
