| Director: | Monica Dugo |
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| Production: | Cinzia Rutson for Do-Go & C. |
| Running Time: | 80’ |
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Main Cast: | Monica Dugo, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Edoardo Boschetti, Francesco Gheghi, Angelo Libri, Annalisa Insardà, with the corteous participation of Sandra Collodel |
| Screenplay: | Monica Dugo with the collaboration of Massimiliano Nardulli |
| Cinematographer: | Gianni Mammolotti |
| Editor: | Paola Traverso |
| Production Designer: | Emanuela Zappacosta
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| Costume Designer: | Nicoletta Taranta |
| Music: | Pier Cortese |
| Sound: | Yann Fadanelli
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Cinema
Come le tartarughe
Biennale College Cinema
Synopsis
Rome, historic center. Daniele, Lisa and two children: Sveva, a teenage girl, and Paolo, a seven-year old boy. A perfect family and a life that seems perfect. But it is not. One day Daniele empties his side of the wardrobe and leaves.
The shock and the unpreparedness for such an event, as well as the realisation that the separation will be for good, are a devastating trauma for Lisa. And with her characteristic calm, she reacts by climbing into the wardrobe that she finds empty.
The wardrobe becomes a refuge, a hiding place, somewhere to suspend time, to conceal her pain and try to heal it. Sveva, a mature and energetic adolescent, sees only the absurdity of the thing. Gradually, however, she will grow closer to Lisa, accepting her bizarre behavior, understanding her sorrow. Paolo seems make no judgements. His bond with his mother is unbroken. He is just bewildered, confused, tender, sad.
Life inside the wardrobe is tragic but at the same time comical, and it is funny too that it was Lisa, at the beginning of the story, who had wanted it to be so spacious, certainly with no idea of living in it. Daniele is not going to come home, Lisa will emerge from the wardrobe: it won’t be the end of the pain, but the first step toward an awareness of having to face up to it.
Director’s Statement
My film started out from an image: an empty wardrobe.
I wandered whether a woman, overwhelmed by unbearable and unexpected sorrow, might choose to hide away in it. What would have filtered through its cracks and what would I show of its interior? Spying on the protagonist, while concealing her colorless state of mind behind colorful blouses. The wardrobe becomes a character, witnesses and accommodates. Once its mission is over it can even die.
In any case, the first rule I set myself was to do things very seriously but without ever taking myself too seriously. Not dwelling on the pain, letting it be felt but looking away a moment before rather than a moment after.
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION: Go Go C. Srl
Via Dei Delfini 36
00186 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 3382204577
Mob. +44 7939274007
biennale.dogo@gmail.com
WORLD SALES: Francesca Delise – ILLMATIC Film Group
Via Dell’Arco Della Fontanella 2-5
Roma, Italia
Mob. +39 3464130050
f.delise@illmatic.it
francesco@illmatic.it
UFFICIO STAMPA/PRESS OFFICE: La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale College Cinema
Tel. +39 0412726644
presscinema@labiennale.org
college-cinema@labiennale.org
