The sea and rocks. The end of the summer, in a seaside resort two lives on the ridge divide beers, silence, and secrets. The proprietor, thirty-year-old Valerio ( Antonio Folletto ) has a past that torments him, he must deal with his bipolar disorder. While from Naples, with his apparent svagatezza comes Carla ( Catherine Spaak ), retired judge, in his seventies, still beautiful, wanting only to remain with the feet on the sand as much as possible: if there was the Alzheimer’s and the family that wants to isolate it.
Among them, a Cilento strange and almost metaphysical: Palinuro, Camerota, Acciaroli, the protagonists and the majestic. Direct The holiday , a film that excites and hurts – the debut tomorrow night at the Festa del cinema of Rome, the section Alice in the city, the production of Luciano Stella and Carolina Third-party for the Mad Entertainment, Rai Cinema, once again, is the steady hand of Enrico Iannaccone, a neapolitan, born in 1989, which confirms the director unsettling and accurate after The good output, and the powerful short-run, already winner of the David di Donatello 2013.
Cinema, on the set of Iannaccone with Catherine Spaak and Antonio Folletto
Iannaccone, “The holiday” league of friendship and illness. Difficult not to slip in the apple tree, or cling to the comedy.
” it Is the reason why it took me three years from first draft to the construction of the film. The risk of being cloying, it was around the corner.
When you make a movie in which the characters battle with two diseases, you can become dark, or pathetic. I have tried to be rigorous”.
it was inspired by a meeting?
“A man to whom I was bound, had a beginning of dementia: I was surprised by the red thread between us, I understood and felt understood, while the family unintentionally remove, react. Sometimes we make the presence and lucidity, the only bulwark, but there are other channels”.
thirty years he has directed a very good Elf and the three ladies actresses such as the Spaak, Carla Signoris, and Veruschka, the icon of irresistible Blow Up that today is a fragile, charming, eighty-year-old.
“Thrilling. Great experience is also a human experience. And I am grateful to all the cast. We have believed in so much, we were neighbors, being a film content to budget. Not to mention that the processing was at the limit of daring, especially for ladies, even though sports: the storm is violent, which takes us to the natural Arch of Palinuro, the camera-car on the state roads, never-lit… “.
The Nature here is an element of tension, seems to quote Antonioni. Smiles.
“I didn’t do it on purpose, but I can’t deny that Antonioni is my favorite Italian in the absolute, together with the Ferreri. I wanted a counterpoint, almost wagnerian, in the lives of the characters. A Nature which, resolved in its apparent disorder, is not judgmental, is a spectator at rest with respect to the superstructure with which we, instead, look to the other, to the alleged strangeness and misery”.
When he decided to do the director?
“The asylum”.
In what sense?
“Really small”.
And then, how is the format?
“With the video Unit, and handouts of The new Cinema. The only passion in their children by telling stories, playing, and moving puppets, and then when I saw the images on tv, I said to myself: that. Then Dams, then I followed a little Medicine. But my bread is only cinema. Even today, this morning, every day. I have to see, review, and train always.”
What has he seen today?
“Revised: one of my Bergman favorite, A lesson in love, 1954. Perfect slot. In fact, it is on my podium magic of the comedies: with Susanna, Hawks, and with our magnificent horse Fever, to Steno. Where everything, I say everything is perfect, from the actors to the last light and sound”.
You are thinking of doing a comedy, you confess.
“Now, yes, now I will try seriously, let’s see. The holiday belongs to me much, I did it, I’m happy. Now I expected this huge challenge” .
How to put it with his Goblin – Valerio? At the beginning of the film he is angry with Armstrong the astronaut: “Because it returned from the Moon? I can’t believe you prefer the Earth”.
“I know Him, is a thought of mine. The stars attract me a lot, hard to think of touching them, and go back to the basics”.
this is why, despite having decided to return to live in Naples, has chosen a almost a hermitage to Camaldoli?
“I Confirm. I was living in Madrid, then in Milan. Now in the silence and in the nature of Camaldoli. Solitude is an art to be cultivated with dedication.”
View from up there, in Naples, in his imagination, how is it?
“can I be unpopular?”
It is.
“the City that is satisfied immediately, just a little. That attacks Gomorrah for the alleged negative publicity, and then, perhaps, he revels in the representation of stereotypes, far worse, the cute rascal, the forty-year-old who lives at home with mom. We are a city of low ambitions”.
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