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Director:
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Screenplay: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie
Lvovsky and Agnès de Sacy
Cast:
Federica: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Bianca: Chiara Mastroianni
Pierre: Jean-Hugues Anglade
Philippe: Denis Podalydès
The Mother: Marysa Borini
The Father: Roberto Herlitzka
Aurélio: Lambert Wilson
Awards:
Best First Film, Prix Louis Delluc (2003), Best Emerging
Film Maker and Best Actress (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi),
Tribeca Film Festival (2003)
Running time: 110'
Year of production: France - Italy 2003
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (color)
Distributor: New Yorker Films
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“Using
the cinema as, borrowing Orson Well’s phrase, a
‘ribbon of dreams’, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
shows an iconoclastic pleasure in blending her two filmmaking
backgrounds – Italian and French… [The film]
first with the very essence of Italian popular comedy:
joyful despair.” Frédérique Moreau,
Tribeca Film Festival |
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Drawing heavily
on her own life, Bruni Tedeschi plays Federica, the daughter
of a wealthy Italian industrialist who moves his family to
Paris. She feels incredibly guilty because she is rich. She
also feels trapped by her social status, her family and her
relationships with men. To assuage her guilt and in an effort
to free herself, Federica makes frequent trips to the confessional
– trips that seem motivated more by masochism than by
genuine contrition. Her boyfriend is a history teacher who
is ready to marry her and start a family. She is attracted
by his self-righteousness and his working-class background
as both represent a form of self-inflicted punishment. Her
confusion increases when she runs into an ex-boyfriend who
is now married. To add to her distress, her father’s
illness brings her contentious family together and forces
her to face an insensitive mother, a wry brother and a resentful
sister. Overwhelmed by her approaching inheritance and unable
to sort out her tangled relationships with men and her family,
Federica seeks comfort in her wild imagination. Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi expands the narrative with a dazzling array of childhood
flashbacks, whimsical animations, fantasies, and character-enriching
improvisations. The actress-director’s self-portrait
is unsparingly and insightfully self-critical and marks an
auspicious directing debut for actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
(Mon Homme, Nénette et Boni).
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