Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 110'
The sweet, fragile, twentyyearsold Emanuela roams over city and country making sidewalk paintings. Rudy is fortyfive. He makes his living playing the accordion in the fairs and dance halls of marginal neighborhoods. The two meet by chance and fall in love without future plans. Their relationship changes bit by bit into a slow emotional agony. It is broken off when the girl decides to leave the man to save herself. Emanuela's mother was a romantic and disillusioned woman who ran after her dream of an eternal love until the very end. Her suicide pushes her daughter on a sorrowful journey of discovery that puts light on a terrible truth.
"For me cinema is poetry. It is the possibility of making the splinters of life come out of every day reality. These scattered pieces of a discourse give body to my way of being and existing in the world. More than any other artistic expression, cinema has this ability to reveal and unveil that which is real. ... The defeated are almost always the protagonists of my works: Vittorio in Pericoloso a sé e agli altri, Giovanni in I pugni in cielo, Samira the Nigerian prostitute, and Rudy in Coming Upon the Days. This is a choice that does not only come out of a felling of human solidarity. Above all, his choice comes out of the knowledge that that vein of poetry that renders even the most tragic and desperate realities artistically evocative and existentially exemplary gushes forth with more immediacy from that very universe of 'lost lives'." (Antonio Carella)
Biography
film director
Antonio Carella
Born in Turin in 1950, Antonio Carella studied philosophy here and attended film and television courses in Milan. He lived in Paris and Colombia before returning to live in Turin permanently. In 1983 he and his brother Raffaele founded Mimesi83, a video and film production company for which he made most of his works. Since 1988 he has been working on the editorial staff of Mixer, a program of Rai 2.
FILMOGRAFIA
La torre sul fiume (Super8, 1983), Pericoloso a sé e agli altri (video, 1984), I pugni in cielo (16mm, 1986), Farsi una casa (video, 1990), Incontro ai giorni (35mm, 1991).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura: Antonio Carella.
Aiuto-regia: Stefano Tealdi.
Director of photography: Pietro Sciortino.
Music: Alberto Manetto.
Sound: Paolo Favaro.
Editor: Elena Baruffini.
Cast and characters: Rudy Riele, Emanuela Amato, Raffaella De Vita.
Produttore esecutivo: Raffaele Carella.
Director of Production: Elena Filippini.
Production company: Mimesi83, corso Brescia 19, Torino, tel. 289681.
Italian distribution: Reiac Film S.r.l., via Taramelli 22, Roma, tel. 3230427.
Aiuto-regia: Stefano Tealdi.
Director of photography: Pietro Sciortino.
Music: Alberto Manetto.
Sound: Paolo Favaro.
Editor: Elena Baruffini.
Cast and characters: Rudy Riele, Emanuela Amato, Raffaella De Vita.
Produttore esecutivo: Raffaele Carella.
Director of Production: Elena Filippini.
Production company: Mimesi83, corso Brescia 19, Torino, tel. 289681.
Italian distribution: Reiac Film S.r.l., via Taramelli 22, Roma, tel. 3230427.