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Dormant Beauty (Bella addormentata)

Dormant Beauty (Bella addormentata)

Dormant Beauty (Bella addormentata)

original title:

Bella addormentata

directed by:

Marco Bellocchio

cast:

Alba Rohrwacher, Toni Servillo, Michele Riondino, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Isabelle Huppert, Maya Sansa, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Brenno Placido, Fabrizio Falco, Roberto Herlitzka, Gigio Morra, Federica Fracassi, Giorgio Basile

screenplay:

Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Rulli, Veronica Raimo

cinematography:

Daniele Ciprì

editing:

Francesca Calvelli

set design:

Marco Dentici

costume design:

Sergio Ballo

music:

Carlo Crivelli

producer:

Riccardo Tozzi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Fabio Conversi

production:

Cattleya, BaBe Films, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura, supported by Friuli Venezia Giulia region

distribution:

01 Distribution [Italy]

world sales:

Celluloid Dreams [France]

country:

Italy/Francia

year:

2012

film run:

115'

format:

colour

release date:

07/09/2012

festivals & awards:

The film takes place in various parts of Italy over six days, which are Eluana Englaro’s last and whose story remains in the background. The stories of fictional characters from different faiths and ideologies are connected emotively to that case, in an existential reflection on the reasons for living life and for hope despite everything. A senator has to choose whether to vote for a law that goes against his conscience or not, going against the party line, whilst his daughter Maria, an activist in a pro-life movement, demonstrates outside the clinic where Eluana is being treated. Roberto, alongside his brother, is on the opposing secular front; an “enemy” who Maria falls in love with. Elsewhere, a great actress looks to her faith and a miracle to save her daughter, who has been in an irreversible coma for years, and for whom she has sacrificed her relationship with her son. Finally, there is the desperate Rossa who wants to die, but a young doctor called Pallido opposes her suicide with all his might. And against all expectations, at the end of the film, there is a reawakening...