12/11/2013 - A metaphor for the balance and lightness needed for us to move through the world we live in like acrobats, the director explains

On the one side the North Pole, on the other the Equator. Turin is a city which sits on the 45^th parallel and Davide Ferrario, after looking into the fact for a documentary in 1997, 45^th Parallel [+see also:
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This film, just like After Midnight [+see also:
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film profile], another of his films which was successful in Italy and abroad, was selected in the out of competition section of the Rome Film Festival. It was produced by the director’s independent company Rossofuoco, in association with the Banca Sella, FIP, Fargo Film and support from the Film Commission Torino Piemonte. It is a comedy, which revolves around two characters played by Walter Leonardi, Manuela Parodi and Eugenio Franceschini, born from a fluid screenplay. “For me, a film is first and foremost about filming and editing. And this film was filmed in four weeks, with another eight used for editing. That is my way of working. It is not better or worse, it is just a different way and possible.”

The people from the film were characterised by lack of determination and indecision. “And I would add precariousness. The acrobat character represents that: precariousness, which lives with lightness and the possibility of falling. All of my characters walk along that fine line, like all of us in life.”

The digital imprint is notable. “Since After Midnight, which was the first Italian film to be filmed in digital form, going through Freedom [+see also:
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The film will come out in March 2014 with Academy Two. International distribution is being taken care of by Lion Pictures International.

(Translated from Italian)