The Thought that Counts (first feature)

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The Thought that Counts (Quel che conta è il pensiero)

The Thought that Counts (Quel che conta è il pensiero)

original title:

Quel che conta è il pensiero

directed by:

screenplay:

cinematography:

music:

Equ, Corner in Bloom, Lineamaginot

country:

Italy

year:

2020

film run:

88'

format:

colour

festivals & awards:

  • Festival del Cinema di Porretta Terme 2020
  • Italia Film FEDIC/Mostra del Cinema di Montecatini 2021
  • CineOff - Festival di Cinema Indipendente 2021: Menzione Speciale
  • Sedicicorto International Film Festival 2021: Premio "Registi del Futuro"

Giovanni and Michele are university students looking for a sublet roommate. Instead of studying for his Medicine exams, Giovanni is devoting all his efforts to the setup of his student play titled "Freud's Laundrette"; while Michele is busy going to parties and changing girlfriends. Hindered by Giovanni's resistance, their roommate search efforts apparently lead nowhere - until, one day, Asia shows up at their door. In the midst of postponed exams, ambitious discussions, peaks of nostalgia, slack generational conflicts and too many coffees, Giovanni, Asia and Michele stumble towards an uncertain future in the lines of their generation in eternal crisis, longing for an outburst which seems to invariably fade into irony.