| Director: | Giovanni Tortorici |
|---|---|
| Production: | Frenesy Film (Luca Guadagnino, Agustina Costa Varsi, Marco Morabito), Pinball London (Paula Vaccaro, Aaron Brookner), Memo Films (Francesco Melzi, Gabriele Moratti), Ag Studios (Alex Garcia), Tenderstories (Moreno Zani) |
| Running Time: | 109’ |
| Language: | Italian, English |
| Country: | Italy, UK |
| Main Cast: | Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta, Dana Giuliano, Zackari Delmas, Luca Lazzareschi, Sergio Benvenuto |
| Screenplay: | Giovanni Tortorici |
| Cinematographer: | Massimiliano Kuveiller |
| Editor: | Marco Costa |
| Production Designer: | Marta Morandini |
| Costume Designer: | Maria Antonia Tortorici |
| Sound: | Vito Martinelli, Michele Gualdrini |
Cinema
Diciannove
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Palermo, 2015. Leonardo, 19, leaves his hometown to join his sister in London and begin his Business studies. However, his initial enthusiasm soon fades away. Restless, he impulsively enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature. But here too, he drops out and decides to immerse himself in the study of Italian ‘bella lingua’ texts. It is going be an academic year of solitude, sporadic and strange sociality and generational confrontations. A year later, Leonardo is in Turin, where he meets a man, an acquaintance of him, with whom he will have a more direct confrontation than usual.
Director’s statement
The film is an investigation of a 19-year-old boy and an analysis of his life and his being a student.
Leonardo is initially presented as a boy who is sometimes awkward but follows a conformist lifestyle. As the story develops, his asocial and neurotic nature emerges, sublimated in the obsession of a rigid idea of literature and being a writer.
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION 1: Agustina Costa Varsi - Frenesy Film
Viale Bianca Maria 28
20129 Milan, Italy
Tel. 39 392-0004388
office@frenesyfilm.com
PRODUCTION 2: Paula Vaccaro, Aaron Brookner - Pinball London
Oxford House, 49 Oxford Road
N4 3EY London, United Kingdom
Tel. 44 7941474721
paula@pinballonline.co.uk
PRODUCTION 3: Francesco Melzi, Gabriele Moratti - Memo Films
Vicolo Santa Maria alla Porta 1
20123 Milan, Italy
Tel. 39 348 367 8040
fmelzi00@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 4: Alex Garcia - AG Studios
9255 Sunset Blvd, Suite 515
9006 West Hollywood, California, USA
alejandro.garcia@helloanima.com
Website: www.agstudios.com
Instagram: @agstudioslatam
PRODUCTION 5: Moreno Zani - Tenderstories
Via Leopardi 8
20123 Milan, Italy
Tel. 39 02 8219 67 53
info@tenderstories.eu
WORLD SALES: François Yon – Playtime
5 rue Nicolas Flamel
75004, Paris, France
Tel. 33 1 53 10 33 99
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PRESS OFFICE: Arianna Monteverdi
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