L'albero (first feature)

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L'albero

L'albero

original title:

L'albero

directed by:

screenplay:

cinematography:

set design:

Claudia Tozzi, Gaia San Martino

costume design:

production:

country:

Italy

year:

2024

film run:

92'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (20/09/2024)

festivals & awards:

Rome. Bianca and Angelica are 20 years old, best friends, and moving in together.
High class, off-campus in college, they always hang out in the East Rome nightlife underground, and pipe a little too much cocaine.
As their situation worsens, and relations with the outside world crumble, their friendship turns into a symbiotic and dangerous love.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Before becoming a screenplay, this story had taken various forms over the years. It was an attempt to elaborate a dense, traumatic yet happy life experience. To transform into words the feeling of nostalgia. And it was an attempt to bring back things that were slipping away or had already gone. This is why I thought this story was only about me. But after writing the film, I understood it could speak to others as well. That it could reveal a feminine world in which girls existed alone, enclosed within small microcosms, free and vital but also egocentric, lying, indolent, spoiled. A world in which there were no men, just like there were no adults. Then I believed that I could try and make this film. A film in which addiction is seen as a critical turning point in life, which is both destructive yet offers a different understanding of oneself, of friendship, of love – vital life forces even when they end.