41° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ITALIAN DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
LA MECCANICA DELLE COSE
by Alessandra Celesia
Country: France, Germany
Year: 2023
Duration: 92'
After a fall from the 8th floor, my cat Tito was paralyzed. In search of a solution, I typed "spinal cord regeneration" on the Internet and found myself embarked in a clinical trial on human patients in China... With my travel companions, we will face our respective injuries, all impossible to repair in theory. And try, despite everything, to repair them.
Biography
film director
Alessandra Celesia
is an Italian director who lives between Paris and Belfast. After studying modern literature and theater, she directed in 2006 the documentary Luntano, first collaboration with Michel David (Zeugma Films). In 2011, she directed The Bookseller of Belfast, co-produced by Arte. In 2013, Anatomia del miracolo premiered at Cinéma du Réel, and received an Étoile de la Scam in 2017.
FILMOGRAFIA
Salaam Aosta (doc., 2000), La spiaggia (2000), Orti (doc, cm, 2001), Luntano (doc, mm, 2006), 89, avenue de Flandres (doc, 2008), Il libraio di Belfast (doc, mm, 2011), Mirage à l’italienne (doc, 2013), Un temps pour danser (doc, mm, 2016), La visite (doc, cm, 2016), Anatomia del miracolo (doc, 2017), Come il bianco (doc, cm, 2020), La meccanica delle cose (doc, 2023).
Declaration
film director
“If I had to define this movie’s genre, I’d say it’s a contemporary fairy tale with all the right ingredients: magical animals, modern wizards, potions, remedies that are improbable to various degrees, miraculous people, motorcyclists lost on their motorcycles, fathers slipping into the abyss. It’s a story of uncertain healing, since we never completely recover from our wounds. A fairly crazy story whose ambition is to talk to others and not just to me. Because the improbable combination of events that it depicts has the necessary power to go beyond the ‘small personal movie’ and echo the fragility we all have when faced with existence.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Alessandra Celesia. EDITING: Nicolas Milteau. MUSIC: Andrew Nelson. SOUND: Marilou Cuffini-Fabre, Janis Grossmann. PRODUCERS: Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Dirk Manthey. PRODUCTION: Films de Force Majeure, Dirk Manthey Film. COPRODUCTION: ZDF, ARTE - La Lucarne.
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