| Director: | Enrico Maria Artale |
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| Production: | Ascent Film (Matteo Rovere, Andrea Paris), Young Films (Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis), Rai Cinema |
| Running Time: | 106’ |
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy |
| Main Cast: | Edoardo Pesce, Margarita Rosa De Francisco, Maria Del Rosario, Gabriel Montesi |
| Screenplay: | Enrico Maria Artale |
| Cinematographer: | Francesco Di Giacomo |
| Editor: | Valeria Sapienza |
| Production Designer: | Laura Boni |
| Costume Designer: | Cristina La Parola |
| Sound: | Gianluca Scarlata, Mirko Perri, Michele Mazzucco, Mauro Eusepi
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| Visual Effects: | Paolo Galiano |
Cinema
El paraíso
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Julio Cesar is almost forty years old and still lives with his mother, a Colombian woman with a compelling personality. The pair of them share practically everything: a little house on the river filled with memories, the small amount of money earned working for a local drug dealer, a passion for evenings of salsa and merengue. An existence on the margins lived with love, at once symbiotic and oppressive, whose precarious equilibrium risks being undermined with the arrival of Ines, a young Colombian who has just made her first journey as a cocaine “mule.” Between desire and jealousy the situation rapidly gets out of hand, to the point where Julio will find himself taking drastic measures, on a painful journey that will take him for the first time to the land of his origins.
Director's Statement
This film is a story of love between a mother and a son, a vivid tragedy that plunges its heroes into the constantly shifting nuances of their innermost moods, into delicacy and into violence. It is the almost mythological tale of a bond based on blood in which I’ve tried to avoid making judgments, without wanting to establish whether what unites the two protagonists so deeply is an act of love more powerful than social conventions or a sign of mental dysfunction that reflects their inability to accept a natural separation. Can we really draw a line that distinguishes love and madness, the indomitable force of sentiment from the profound fear of being left alone forever ?
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1: Matteo Rovere, Andrea Paris – Ascent Film
Via Giovanni Battista Piatti, 23
00185 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0670490005
Mob. +39 3393689010
romina@groenlandiafilm.com
PRODUCTION 2: Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis – Young Films
Viale Giustiniano Imperatore, 159
00145 – Roma, Italia
Mob. +39 3201989834
carla.altieri@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 3: Paolo Del Brocco - Rai Cinema
Piazza Adriana, 12
00193 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0633179601
anna.pomara@raicinema.it
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Andrea Romeo - I Wonder
Via della Zecca, 2 40121 – Bologna, Italia
romeo@iwonderpictures.it
WORLD SALES: Bendita Film Sales
Luis Renart, CEO/ Sales & Acquisitions
sales@benditafilms.com
Jorge Blanch, Festivals Manager & Acquisitions
festivals@benditafilms.com
PRESS OFFICE: Romina Such – Ascent Film
Via Giovanni Battista Piatti, 23
00185 – Roma, Italia
Tel. +39 0670490005
Mob. +39 3393689010
romina@groenlandiafilm.com
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE: Gabriele Barcaro
Tel. +39 3405538425
gabriele.barcaro@gmail.com
