Paolo Genovese slams the first clapperboard on The First Day of My Life
- Produced by Medusa Film and Lotus, the new film by the author of Perfect Strangers will be toplined by Valerio Mastandrea, Margherita Buy, Sara Serraiocco and Toni Servillo
A story about the strength required to start over when everything appears to be falling apart around you: this is what is promised by Paolo Genovese’s new film intitled The First Day of My Life [+see also:
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Written by Genovese himself, together with Paolo Costella, Rolando Ravello and Isabella Aguilar, and based upon the director’s novel of the same name published by Einaudi, the story tells the tale of a man (Valerio Mastandrea), two women (Margherita Buy and Sara Serraiocco) and a boy (Gabriele Cristini) who are sure they’ve hit rock bottom. They meet a mysterious character (Toni Servillo) who offers to show them how the world would look without them over the course of one week and, in so doing, provides them with an opportunity to find the strength to start over and to fall in love with life again, the inestimable value of which is pushed to the fore.
As stated by Genovese, whose previous film Superheroes [+see also:
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Joining the protagonists in the cast of The First Day of My Life are Elena Lietti, Antonio Gerardi, Vittoria Puccini, Thomas Trabacchi and Alessandro Tiberi. Photography is entrusted to Fabrizio Lucci, set design to Chiara Balducci and costumes are in the hands of Gemma Mascagni.
The First Day of My Life will be shot entirely in Rome with filming due to last a total of nine weeks.
(Translated from Italian)
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