Country: Italy
Year: 2022
Duration: 15'
Today Rosa celebrates the anniversary of her engagement with Roberto. While she waits for him for dinner, she spends the afternoon in the pool with her younger brother Angelo. They begin to comment on a news story happened a few days earlier: the body of a boy found in a field a few kilometers from the city. Roberto arrives earlier than expected: the glances between the three become enigmatic and restless.
Biography
film director
Marius Gabriel Stancu
(Bucharest, Romania, 1994) in 2016 he moved to Italy, where, in 2018, he began collaborating with the international sales agency The Open Reel. He wrote several subjects, one of which later became the screenplay for a short he also directed in 2020: It's È solo nella mia testa (, selected at almost 50 international film festivals and distributed in DVD and VOD in several territories. He has just finished his second short film, entitled The Anniversary.
FILMOGRAFIA
È solo nella mia testa ( (cm, 2020), L’anniversario (cm, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“I was inspired by the short story So Much Water so Close to Home by Raymond Carver: a wife begins to suspect of her husband, after he and his friends find the corpse of a woman on the shore of a nearby lake. I was struck by the narrative dynamics of the couple’s dialogue, in a sort of “literary Kammerspiele” that is staged in the kitchen, and in which the wife tries to investigate and get answers from her husband, trying to control, perhaps not fully dominating it, an avalanche of mixed feelings. I tried to do the same in L’anniversario, in which another woman asks questions whose answers provoke reactions that are barely held back, in a single place, the swimming pool, as if we were at a theatrical piece.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Marius Gabriel Stancu. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Xiao Duan. FILM EDITING: Marco Spinniccha. MUSIC: The Pillheads, Kenzo Diaz. SOUND: Lorenzo Arnaldi. CAST: Joseph Altamura, Tobia De Angelis, Stella Mastrantonio, Andrea Pittorino. PRODUCER: Cosimo Santoro. PRODUCTION: The Open Reel.
CONTACT:
The Open reel - Cosimo Santoro cs@theopenreel.com
