original title:
Molly Bloom
directed by:
cast:
Chiara Caselli, Enrico Carotenuto, Elisabetta De Vito, Lilian Sassanelli, Giacomo Gonnella, Marius Bizau, Elettra Mallaby, Nicole Guerzoni, Lorenzo Ciambrelli
screenplay:
Chiara Caselli, from Ulysses by James Joyce
cinematography:
editing:
Enrica Gattolini
set design:
costume design:
producer:
production:
Ubulibri, In Between Art Film, Vivo Film, supported by Ministero della Cultura
country:
Italy
year:
2016
film run:
20'
format:
DCP - colour
status:
Ready (28/07/2016)
festivals & awards:
It is the dead of night, Molly, in her bed, cannot get to sleep. Next to her face are the feet of her husband Leopold, who fell asleep upside-down and fully dressed. Molly’s voice, her irreverent, tragic, and childlike spirit, lead us on a journey through her life and the people who inhabit it, whether living or imaginary. Present time is, then, interwoven with a past that haunts her and a future that offers her what she feels she has lost forever... slowly dawn enters her room.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
The film is a plunge into the heart, mind, and flesh of Molly, the protagonist of the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Since I was a teenager, as I began to take photos, I have wished to depict interior life through images. My meeting with Molly also dates from that time. I saw her at the theater: an indelible meeting. In 2010 I began my journey into Molly’s mind and personality, with an adaptation, a scenic interpretation, a play. Molly was a body and words, and now the filmmaking has added her image. A natural and necessary development.