28/07/2009

A film on “the dismantling of the film machine" in the past 30 years will represent Italy at the sixth edition of Venice Days (September 3-12).

Di Me Cosa Ne Sai (“What Do You Know About Me”), directed by Valerio Jalongo and made with an invaluable contribution from Francesca Palombelli, to whom the film is dedicated, “came about as a collective project six years ago at the Filmmakers Villa,” says section delegate general Giorgio Gosetti. “It is made up of interviews, encounters and fragments of our cultural and political life that try to explain the decline of Italian cinema from its great popularity in the 1970s to today’s flight of audiences and producers”.

The other Italian titles are mostly in Films on Reality, a group of three special events that, according to Gosetti, “range from the very contemporary of Stefano Consiglio’s L’Amore e Basta (“Love, Period”), to the historical in Paola Sangiovanni’s Ragazze… La Vita Trema, and include the experimental Poesia Che Mi Guardi by Marina Spada”.

L’Amore e Basta, scheduled for a September 4 release by Lucky Red, looks at gay and lesbian relationships. The second film, a debut, retraces the feminist battles of four women in the 1960s, while the third is a portrait on the youth of poet Antonia Pozzi.

Besides the previously announced Videocracy, a film by Erik Gandini presented in partnership with the International Critics’ Week, the section includes a tribute to animator Signe Baumane with the 15 shorts Teat Beat of Sex, a co-production between Italy and Latvia.

The project 100 + 1. One hundred films and one country, Italy, headed by Fabio Ferzetti, will be at Venice Days with the restored print of Francesco Rosi's The Magliari and the documentary tribute Vittorio D., with which Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri celebrate “maestro” De Sica.

Lastly, there will also be the short film Mille Giorni di Vito, by Elisabetta Pandimiglio.