Directed by:
Fausto ParavidinoScreenplay:
Fausto ParavidinoCinematography:
Gherardo GossiComposer:
Nicola TescariCast:
Teco Celio, Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Binasco, Fausto Paravidino, Valeria Sabel, Gloria Sapio, Pier Luigi Pasino, Massimo Mesciulam (more)Plots(1)
A Saturday night get-together for a group of friends, men and women around the age of thirty, takes a dramatic and perilous turn. The party images, however, are suddenly interrupted by reminiscences of two other celebrations, where various problems arose, became more convoluted, and now threaten to bring about multiple tragedies. The director proves a master of narration, bringing us into the friends' regular world, where the atmosphere is dictated by whim and mood, whether it's a sense of ease or convulsion, boredom or amusement, idle chit-chat and showing off or, on the contrary, profoundly truthful insight and flashes of honesty. Thanks to his sense of psychological detail and his inventive use of film language, we are presented with an imaginative, dynamic mosaic of a dozen portraits of a small community and, in fact, an entire provincial town. In both the environment and its inhabitants we observe the disappearing traces of traditional rural life which has to give way to the aggressively vivid and staunchly rousing tempo of the industrial metropolis. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Teco Celio
Switzerland
Best movies:
Three Colours: Red (1994)
The Truce (1997)
Journey of Hope (1990)
Valeria Golino
Italy
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Hot Shots! 2 (1993)
Hot Shots! (1991)
Riccardo Scamarcio
Italy
Best movies:
The Best of Youth (2003) (series)
Maradona: Blessed Dream (2021) (series)
My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)
Valerio Binasco
Italy
Best movies:
Leopardi (2014)
Lord of the Ants (2022)
A Perfect Day (2008)
Fausto Paravidino
Italy
Best movies:
St. Francis (2002) (TV movie)
Cefalonia (2005) (TV movie)
Ultima pallottola (2003) (TV movie)
Valeria Sabel
Italy
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
I Am Afraid (1977)
All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
Massimo Mesciulam
Best movies:
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990) (TV movie)