original title:
Youtopia
directed by:
cast:
Donatella Finocchiaro, Alessandro Haber, Matilda De Angelis, Pamela Villoresi, Lina Bernardi, Federico Rosati, Paolo Sassanelli, Claudio Botosso, Luca Lionello, Laura Pizzirani, Giulia Anchisi, Silvia Francese, Armando Ottaiano, Demetra Bellina, Gianni Pellegrino, Giulio Maroncelli, Daniele Natali, Maria Laura Moraci, Davide Grillo, Paola Lorenzoni, Luigi Marchigiani
screenplay:
Berardo Carboni, Dino Giarrusso, Aliosha Massine, Marco Berardi, Marco Greganti
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
Plaid e Mara Carlyle
producer:
production:
Piroetta, supported by Ministero della Cultura
world sales:
country:
Italy
year:
2018
film run:
92'
format:
HD - colour
release date:
25/04/2018
festivals & awards:
18-year-old Matilde lives a bleak life with her senile grandmother and her mother, Laura, who is crushed by debts and struggling with no success to find a way to make a better life for her and her family. Matilde does not know about her mother's debts, but copes with her life thanks to her online avatar from utopian universe Landing, a multiplayer online role-playing game where "she" hangs out with special friend, Hiro. She has also found an easy way to make money independently: online videochat stripping shows. Ernesto, instead, is a wealthy bourgeois; a pharmacy owner who runs away away from his work and to his wife, with role-playing hookers with whom his money and obsession with sex and possession, create a parallel world of seduction, submission and vice. One day, Laura is forced to reveal her debts to Matilde, who has a plan for a solution, that will unexpectedly involve Ernesto...
A contemporary tale that mix neorealism with machinima, drama with fantasy, despair with hope.