Commedia (second feature)

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Commedia

original title:

Commedia

cast:

Greta Bellamacina, Rocco Cucovaz, Lars Rohm, Gabriele Guerra, Alessandra Piscopo, Maria Sandrelli, Alba Bartoli, Priscilla Muscat, Sabrina Biagioli, Silvia Fasoli, Mersila Sokoli, Giuditta Calandro, Maria Chiara Pozzoni, Raffaella Zappalà, Laure Franchet D’Esperey

cinematography:

set design:

Yoko Hakiko

costume design:

Yoko Hakiko

country:

Italy/UK

year:

2022

film run:

97'

format:

colour

release date:

23/01/2023

festivals & awards:

  • Cult Valley Global Cinefest 2023: Best Underground Film
  • Jaisalmer International Film Festival 2023
  • Gangtok International Film Festival 2023
  • Stanley Film Awards 2023
  • Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival 2023
  • Bright International Film Festival 2023
  • International Smyrna Movie Festival 2023
  • Hong Kong World Film Festival 2023
  • FilmmakerLife Awards 2023
  • Falcon International Film Festival 2023
  • Mannheim Arts and Film Festival 2023
  • Cine Paris Film Festival 2023

The film wanted to tell seven magnificent interpretations of an actress, such as seven are the virtues or the deadly sins, and seven are the gods of happiness in Buddhism and the magnificent seven, but in the end the film failed. At a time when it is possible to film anything at any time and by any means, this is a missed film.
Maybe the film is a tribute to Marco Ferreri? Not sure. A filmic - experimental story? difficult? ecstatic? - a series of notes in the form of non-cinema.
Sideways and across, a company of people in a psychiatric residence, is part of the precipices of the mood of a girl who thinks of herself as a model, poet, actress, and maybe she really is, if it weren't for that fool who always walks beside her.
Film experiment, etc., incomplete in its manifest and unconscious uncertainty.
In the background remain the mystery of fiction and the end in the human being.
Fiction as a system of being in the world, an end as an end to being in the world, a necessary background for the human being to produce the game of fiction and continue to make the world running the all-female risk of excessive joy.
Long beaches, buildings like cathedrals, woods, knights in arms, tribes of redskins, wonderful women become old wooden chairs inside empty hospital rooms were, perhaps, only the sound of the sea echoes.
In short, GRETA and ROCCO tell of the nostalgia for that banal and peaceful life they wanted to have and which they never lived, but which they are condemned to remember forever.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
The film wanted to tell seven magnificent interpretations of an actress, such as seven are the virtues or the deadly sins, and seven are the gods of happiness in Buddhism and the magnificent seven, but in the end the film failed. At a time when it is possible to film anything at any time and by any means, this is a missed film.
Maybe the film is a tribute to Marco Ferreri? Not sure. A filmic - experimental story? difficult? ecstatic? - a series of notes in the form of non-cinema.
Sideways and across, a company of people in a psychiatric residence, is part of the precipices of the mood of a girl who thinks of herself as a model, poet, actress, and maybe she really is, if it weren't for that fool who always walks beside her.
Film experiment, etc., incomplete in its manifest and unconscious uncertainty.
In the background remain the mystery of fiction and the end in the human being.
Fiction as a system of being in the world, an end as an end to being in the world, a necessary background for the human being to produce the game of fiction and continue to make the world running the all-female risk of excessive joy.
Long beaches, buildings like cathedrals, woods, knights in arms, tribes of redskins, wonderful women become old wooden chairs inside empty hospital rooms were, perhaps, only the sound of the sea echoes.
In short, GRETA and ROCCO tell of the nostalgia for that banal and peaceful life they wanted to have and which they never lived, but which they are condemned to remember forever.