SEA PURPLE
synopsis
On a small, imaginary island off 19th-century Sicily, when the 'Thousand' have landed to reunite Italy, Angela, 25, loves Sara and seeks to ride out the scandal over her own homosexuality by disguising herself as a man. Shut up in a cave by her father, a tyrannical paterfamilias, when she refuses an arranged marriage, Angela is saved by a trick her mother cooks up: she convinces the curate to change Angela's name and sex on her birth certificate. That's how Angela turns into Angelo: sporting a cap and a cigar, and a picture-perfect family. An intense examination of the frontiers of identity as well as geography, the story interweaves fact, legend, and poetry and re-evokes an ancient scandal lost in time.
international title: | Sea Purple |
original title: | Viola di mare |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | Intramovies |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Donatella Maiorca |
film run: | 105' |
release date: | IT 16/10/2009 |
screenplay: | Donatella Diamanti, Mario Cristiani, Donatella Maiorca, Pina Mandolfo |
cast: | Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marco Foschi, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, Corrado Fortuna |
cinematography by: | Roberta Allegrini |
film editing: | Marco Spoletini |
art director: | Beatrice Scarpato |
costumes designer: | Lia Francesca Morandini, Sabrina Beretta |
music: | Gianna Nannini, Wil Malone |
producer: | Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Silvia Natili, Giulio Violati, Giovanna Emidi |
production: | Italian Dream Factory |
backing: | Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali |
distributor: | Medusa Film, Cinemien |