41° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
OUT OF COMPETITION
I DELITTI DEL BARLUME - IL POZZO DEI DESIDERI
by Roan Johnson, Milena Cocozza
Country: Italy
Year: 2023
Duration: 96'
The daughter of Beppe, Tizi, and Massimo's landlord arrives to announce the death of her father and the imminent eviction. The deceased, found at the bottom of a well, becomes the new investigation for Fusco and trouble for Pasquali, who had entrusted the town's money to the deceased... just when they, along with Tassone, had engaged a famous singer to perform in Pineta. As the children investigate on their own, the atmosphere at BarLume becomes increasingly heated.
Biography
film director
Roan Johnson
(London, England, 1975) born in London to an English father and a mother from Lucania, he grew up in Pisa. He wrote the series Inspector De Luca, based on the novels by Carlo Lucarelli, and I delitti del BarLume, based on the novels by Marco Malvaldi, for which he also directs. In 2010, he published the novel Prove di felicità a Roma Est with Einaudi, which won the Berto Prize, and with Mondadori Dovessi ritrovarmi in una selva oscura and La Naneide. In 2011, his first film as a director, The First on the List, was released. In 2014, So Far So Good was the most awarded film at the Rome Film Festival, and his feature film Feather was in competition at Venice in 2016. In 2019, he directed La stagione della caccia, and in 2020, he wrote and directed La concessione del telefono, both based on the novels by Andrea Camilleri. His own State a casa is the first Italian film to depict the pandemic, with a bold black comedy tone. From 2021 to 2023, he created the two seasons of the Monterossi series for Amazon Prime.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il terzo portiere (cm, ep di 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo, 2005), I primi della lista (2011), I delitti del BarLume (15 ep, serie tv, 2015-2023), Fino a qui tutto bene (2014), Piuma (2016), La stagione della caccia - C’era una volta Vigata (tv, 2019), La concessione del telefono - C’era una volta Vigata (tv, 2020), State a casa (2021), Le avventure di Carlo Monterossi (6 ep, serie tv, 2022).
Declaration
film director
"I believe my main role was to maintain, in that tangle of egos, fears, claims, insecurities, tensions that is every series, an atmosphere as lighthearted, playful, and above all, self-deprecating as possible. BarLume, in fact, has one fundamental rule: you can laugh about everything, even death, and it must never, ever be taken too seriously."
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Roan Johnson. SCREENPLAY: Roan Johnson, Davide Lantieri, Ottavia Madeddu, Carlotta Massimi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Cofrancesco. EDITING: Paolo Landolfi. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Michele Modafferi. COSTUME DESIGN: Alessandra Trippetta. MUSICC: Lorenzo Tomio. SOUND: Paolo Spigno. CAST: Filippo Timi, Lucia Mascino, Alessandro Benvenuti, Atos Davini, Massimo Paganelli, Marcello Marziali, Enrica Guidi, Paolo Cioni, Guglielmo Favilla, Michele Di Mauro, Daniele Marmi, Marco Messeri, Stefano Fresi. PRODUCERS: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra, Max Gusberti. PRODUCTION: Sky Stuidios, Palomar Mediawan.
CONTACT: Sky Italia
