original title:
Dulcinea
directed by:
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
Samantha Angeloni, Giulia Pils
costume design:
Michela Borsotti
producer:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2018
film run:
64'
format:
16mm/HD - colour
festivals & awards:
A young girl is getting ready to welcome a client at her apartment. The man, transposition of Don Quixote in a 90s Milan, following a precise ritual, devotes himself to the maniacal cleaning of four rooms. The girl, personification of Dulcinea, eats, reads, paints her nails and smokes. She dresses up and gets undress as if Don Quixote was not there and as if there was no relationship between them. The client, following a pathological scheme, steals some girl’s objects, putting them in plastic bags and then inside a small briefcase. Sometimes the objects being fetishized are destroyed like victims of maniacal bursts. This mechanism leads to the repetition of a celibate and solitary rite.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Dulcinea is the first of three works entirely shot inside domestic locations. I have
called it “Trilogy of the apartment”. It is about three obsessive and pathological
feature films in which the solitude of the events of the characters is constantly put in
relation with the hosting architectural space. Three works in three different format:
16mm for Dulcinea, VHS and digital camera for the others, which are currently in
production. In Dulcinea the solitude permeating the characters is an absent
presence, hidden by methodical actions and by the predictable sequence of events,
which apparently situates them outside of time and human miseries. The actors,
being deprived from any psychologism, adhere for the entire work to a plastered
posture, taking the audience in front of a puppet pièce of exhumation and fetishistic
sexuality.