Archive for category: 2013

Spagna, Francia / Spain, France 1997, 35mm, col., 100′
Five characters and one city, Madrid. Victor, born 20 years earlier in a bus, shows up in Heléna’s home, with whom he had his first sexual relationship. But Heléna is waiting for a pusher and tells him to leave. Enraged, Victor wrestles the gun from her; in the process Elena gets knocked out, and the gun goes off. The shot draw the attention of a neighbor, who calls the police: thus two police men arrive and from the struggling one of the two, David, remains injured from a bullet shoot by his colleague’s gun (Sancho). Therefore, Victor is accused for this criminal action. Two years later Victor, coming out of jail, has a relationship with Sancho’s wife and then with Heléna, meanwhile married with David.[:] Read more

Italia / Italy 2008, 35mm, col., 104′
Bologna, 1938. Michele Casali is in a desperate situation. Giovanna, his only daughter and still a teenager, killed out of jealousy her classmate and best friend. The upper-class environment of which they’re part of, is shook up with emotion and disbelief. The girl manages to avoid prison, but she is declared clinically insane and confined in a psychiatric hospital in Reggio Emilia. There she will stay up until the age of 24 (1945). During this time of isolation, her father, who has moved to Reggio from Bologna where he taught art at the “Liceo Galvani”, is the only person who takes care of her. Giovanna is a girl with serious mental issues, and she looks a lot like her father. Since when she was little, Michele would always try to reassure her and help her overcome her weaknesses by teaching her to demand anything she wanted from anybody.[:] Read more