Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 13'


Pass Me the Butter! is a minimalist short film. At the same time, in the same city (Rome), in three different situations, four characters enter into a relationship with scene 21 of Last Tango in Paris, the one with the butter that was censored. The ways they are related to the butter are all different, according Io the situations in which the four characters find themselves.

"I made this short film after the last edition of the Turin Film Festival. I did it in a hurry. The Experimental Center of Cinematography had made accusations against me in the controversy over Aprile. In dire need, I wanted to make these accusations my own accusations. The directors and some teachers of the school, I felt, accused me of being nothing but 'a peddler of secondhand images'. I felt this accusation strike very near my perspective on reality. By making Pass Me the Butter! I wanted to claim this perspective, to make it my own, to make it an 'emblem' of my work." (Andrea Gropplero)

Biography

film director

Andrea Gropplero di Troppenburg

(Udine, Italy, 1963) is a director, producer, activist, gourmet, and cook known as Chef Guevara. In 2015, for the Istituto Luce he made Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero, presented at the 65th Berlinale, and Il cinecittario, a collection of 180 2-minute film clips and recipes. Two years later, always for the Istituto Luce and Sì produzioni, he shot Il colore della fatica and, that same year, Comunismo futuro. He and the philosopher Stefano Bonaga created and curate Lido Philo, encounters between film and philosophy that take place during the Venice Film Festival. He writes a regular column called Cinegourmet for the journal “8 ½.”  Over the many preceding years, he has made numerous shorts and documentaries, and produced various movies, including Mary (2005) by Abel Ferrara, Paris Dabar (2003) by Paolo Angelini, Elegia della vita - Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006) by Alexander Sokurov, and many other films that have won awards at numerous international festivals.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fallo! (1989), Aprile (1990), Passami il burro! (1990), Permesso di soggiorno (1991), Sette anni sono troppo lunghi (1993), Pidgin (1997), Kumbh-Mela 95 (1997), Quando l’Italia mangiava in bianco e nero (doc, 2015), Il colore della fatica (doc, 2019), Comunismo futuro (doc, 2017), Ok boomer (coregia con Gianfranco Pannone, doc, 2022).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Andrea Gropplero.
Screenplay: Andrea Gropplero, Tommaso Borgstrom, Marangela Barbanente.
Director of photography: Marco Pontecorvo.
Music: Andrea Basevi.
Editor: Marco Spoletini.
Cast: Patrizia Piccinini, Giuseppe Cederna, Raffaella Lebboroni, Raffaella Boscolo.
Production company: Stranamore Coop S.r.l. Axelotil Film, via Alberico II 37, Roma, tel. 6833877.
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