ON THIS PAGE:
- Coppia aperta quasi spalancata
- Super Happy Forever
- Dadapolis
- Emidio Greco’s tribute
Prendono il via le 21me Giornate degli Autori (sezione autonoma e indipendente, promossa da ANAC e 100autori, della Mostra di Venezia), presiedute da Francesco Ranieri Martinotti per la direzione artistica di Gaia Furrer.
E si entra subito nel vivo, con Chiara Francini protagonista e co-produttrice del primo Evento speciale fuori concorso di quest’anno, Coppia aperta quasi spalancata di Federica Di Giacomo (ve lo raccontiamo anche con un’intervista all’attrice), e col primo dei 10 lungometraggi in gara, il giapponese Super Happy Forever di Kohei Igarashi.
Poiché, come ha detto il Delegato generale Giorgio Gosetti, la posta in gioco delle GdA è ancora cercare «la bussola del presente, la visione del futuro, la memoria delle radici comuni», parte anche il nuovo spazio Confronti, con Tahar Ben Jelloun (anche al centro della pre-apertura con Bookciak) e Luciana Castellina sul tema de “La cultura per la pace” e il doc Dadapolis di Carlo Luglio e Fabio Gargano, omaggio a Napoli e ai recentemente scomparsi Gaetano Di Vaio ed Enzo Moscato.
THE OPEN COUPLE ALMOST WIDE OPEN
Venice Days Special Events 2024
Italy, 2024, Director Federica Di Giacomo Cast Chiara Francini, Alessandro Federico, Karl Gustaf Fredrik Lundqvist, Sara Girelli, Chloe Gatti, Daniele Gatti
Efrem Sposini Running Time 120′
Sala Perla 13.45
Based on the play by Franca Rame and Dario Fo, the film that Chiara Francini has been staging for years tells the tale of martyrdom of love when it is a couple or when it becomes many more. It is the story of Antonia, who accepts the idea of an open relationship to avoid losing her husband. Torn between her partner Fredrik and her stage partner Alessandro, the protagonist decides to discover a universe of polyamory. ‘Inspired by Franca Rame’s political and satirical vision of theatre, I thought of breaking up the text and creating an open dramaturgical structure that constantly shifts between what happens on stage and behind the scenes,’ says Federica Di Giacomo. ‘Between fiction and documentary in a cinematic time that coincides with the tour of the two actors who still do not see the relationship between the play and their lives’.
SUPER HAPPY FOREVER
Giornate degli Autori – In competition
France, Japan, 2024 Director Kohei Igarashi Starring Hiroki Sano, Yoshinori Miyata, Nairu Yamamoto, Hoang Nhu Quynh Running time 94’.
Japanese director Kohei Igarashi (born 1983 in Shizuoka) presents his third feature film at Venice Days. After the gloomy vision of a future pre-apocalyptic Japan of Iki o koroshite (2014) and the poetic allegory of Takara – The Night I Swam (2017), this time, the director tackles the tale of a love story in an original way. Accompanied by his friend Miyata, Sano returns to Izu, a seaside resort in Japan where he fell in love with his wife Nagi five years earlier. In this way, we never witness the love story between Sano and Nagi as it happens. The film shows first when it is already over between them and then when nothing has yet begun, in a journey through the survival of feelings.
DADAPOLIS
Giornate degli Autori – Confronti
Italy, 2024. Director Carlo Luglio and Fabio Gargano. Starring Peppe Lanzetta, Enzo Moscato, Cristina Donadio, Roberto Colella, Lino Musella, James Senese, Nello Daniele. Running time 72’.
The director, producer and screenwriter Gaetano Di Vaio (27 February 1968 – 22 May 2024) and the playwright, director and actor Enzo Moscato (20 April 1948 -13 January 2024) are remembered at Venice Days in the conference Naples yesterday and today, in a plural dialogue that restores hope to a city in perpetual movement. The meeting will include a preview of Dadapolis by Carlo Luglio and Fabio Gargano. Naples is painted in the anthology Dadapolis – Caleidoscopio napoletano (Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1992) by Fabrizia Ramondino and Andreas Friedrich Müller as a city full of ferment, culture and contradictions across the centuries. In the film, today’s Naples emerges through the eyes and performances, songs, artworks and dialogues of sixty artists who live and work between Naples and abroad.
VENICE DAYS PAYS TRIBUTE TO EMIDIO GRECO
The 21st Venice Days celebrated one of their founders, filmmaker Emidio Greco (1938-2012), on the 50th anniversary of his first feature film, The Invention of Morel (presented in 1974 at the Cannes Fortnight), which was screened on 27 August in collaboration with the director’s family and the distribution company VIGGO Srl. The invention that gives the film its title (from the novel of the same name by Adolfo Bioy Casares, but the director’s thoughts also went to Borges) is a machine capable of recording time, leading us to reflect on history, death and cinema itself. The cast includes Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner and the recently deceased Roberto Herlitzka. The soundtrack is composed by the Oscar winner Nicola Piovani. ‘The idea,’ said Alessandro Greco, Emidio’s son,’ that The Invention of Morel will be screened fifty years after its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, and that this will happen precisely at Venice Days is something that fills us with pride and joy. Emidio would be delighted. It is his first film, and it is a film in which, right from the start, we can sense his idea of cinema and the relationship between cinema and reality. In the end, cinema and the machine invented by Morel are similar instruments: they are both an attempt to overcome the passing of time.
