Giro di lune tra terra e mare
Italy,
1997, 98 min
Shown in 1998
CREDITS
- dir
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Giuseppe M. Gaudino
- prod
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Isabella Sandri
- scr
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Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Isabella Sandri, Heidrun Schleef
- cam
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Tarek Ben Abdallah
- editor
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Roberto Perpignani, Giuseppe M. Gaudino
- cast
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Olimpia Carlisi, Aldo Bufi Landi, Tina Femiano, Salvatore Grasso
- source
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Goundri Film, via dei Gonzago 56, 00163 Rome, Italy. FAX: 39-6-666-3899
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COMMENTS
Eligible for the Skyy Prize.
OTHER
Giuseppe Gaudino sets his mysterious and beautiful film in the unstable, precarious town of Pozzuoli, situated beneath a volcano and alongside the ocean near Naples. After a series of earthquakes and aftershocks, the home of the fisherman family of Don Salvatore is condemned; they pack their meager belongings and relocate, like many families before them. Perhaps it is the continuous temblors from the area’s long-buried past that also dislodge other refugees. Mythical and historical figures from Sibyl to the musician Pergolesi and the martyred Artema are fluidly intercut with the contemporary story. The body of Agrippina, murdered by her son Nero, slips from the past into the present; no one rests in this shaken landscape. These haunting, ancient stories of longing and disappointment are related by Gennarino, the son of Don Salvatore, as he wanders through the old parts of the town. They are echoed in the growing animosity between Gennarino’s older siblings and their father as the family’s unity slowly breaks apart. The pieces of the family’s life and the memories of the city’s troubled past are complexly layered, often separated by impressionistic lyrical sequences of superimposed, “trembling” images. Throughout, the camera is handheld, its searching gaze seeking a resting point. But the town’s restless figures move on, yearning after their dreams.
—Kathy Geritz
FACTOID #78
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