Country: Italy
Year: 2024
Duration: 105'
Nero is a middle-aged delinquent who commits petty crimes to support his sister Imma, who suffers from mental illness. By accident, Nero kills a gas station attendant during a holdup. Distraught and on the run, he is shocked to find out that the attendant has regained consciousness and is uninjured. The miracle is attributed to the Madonna of the detergents, a statue on display in the man’s store. But a policeman, Abate, is investigating the surveillance videos and becomes convinced that the power to heal came from Nero. Desperate, Abate implores Nero to save his daughter, who is in a coma, and when the man does, in fact, manage to wake up the girl he realizes that he has an extraordinary gift. But there is also a price to pay: each time he heals someone, Nero loses one of his five senses. To what point is he willing to sacrifice himself for others?
Biography
film director
Giovanni Esposito
(Naples), an actor debuting behind the movie camera, graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the Teatro Bellini and has worked onstage with directors such as Renato Carpentieri, Armando Pugliese, Gigi Dall’Aglio, Silvio Orlando, Roberto ndò, Giancarlo Sepe, Vincenzo Salemme, Alessandro D’Alatri, and Filippo Dini. As a movie actor, he has worked with Paolo Sorrentino, the Manetti Bros, Antonio Capuano, Vincenzo Terracciano, Giovanni Morricone, Edoardo De Angelis, Alberto Negrin, Rocco Papaleo, Giulio Manfredonia, and Alessandro Siani. He has taken part in famous TV programs, such as Pippo Chennedy Show, Mai Dire…, and Stasera tutto è possible, and has acted in fiction productions directed by Alberto Sironi, Guido Chiesa, Alberto Negrin, and Ricky Tognazzi. He has also worked in international productions, such as The Tourist, To Rome with Love by Woody Allen, and Book Club: The Next Chapter, and has recently completed shooting Noah Baumbach’s last movie alongside George Clooney and Adam Sandler. Nero is the first film he has directed.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nero (2024).
Declaration
film director
“The outskirts of the suburbs are a self-standing continent where all the continents cohabit, where the natural rules are often rewritten. In these non-places, respect for the boundaries is an individual thing and the concept of individuality is a God to be respected, whatever the cost. Here, the only democracy is the individual. Nero, the protagonist of the movie, feels like an immigrant in this continent of immigrants but he has the attitude of the colonialist, of someone who is permanently the creditor. In fact, he isn’t even black; it’s just that he grew up in the middle of this predominantly African community, adapting himself to a place that brings together the rejects of society, abandoned on the fringe so as to avoid disturbing the respectable people, where the sea’s invasive beauty - devoured by humans - bursts in.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Giovanni Esposito. STORY, SCREENPLAY: Giovanni Esposito, Valentina Farinaccio, Francesco Prisco. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniele Ciprì. EDITING: Lorenzo Peluso. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Luigi Ferrigno. COSTUMES: Rossella Aprea. MUSIC: Giordano Corapi. CAST: Giovanni Esposito, Susy Del Giudice, Anbeta Toromani, Giovanni Calcagno, Marius Bizau, Riccardo Ciccarelli, Emmanuel Dabone, Gennaro Di Biase, Vittorio Ciorcalo, Peppe Lanzetta, Roberto De Francesco, Cristina Donadio, Alessandro Haber. PRODUCTION: Agostino Saccà (Pepito Produzioni), Alessandro Cannavale, Andrea Cannavale (Run Film), Massimo Di Rocco, Luigi Napoleone (Bartlebyfilm), Rai Cinema.
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