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Luisa Porrino termine le tournage de Tramonto a Nord Ovest

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- Ce nouveau film de la réalisatrice et productrice italienne, tourné entre avril et mai dans le Piémont et dans le Tessin, en Suisse, entre à présent en post-production

Luisa Porrino termine le tournage de Tramonto a Nord Ovest
Sur le tournage de Tramonto a Nord Ovest

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Co-produced by Italy (Fargo Entertainment, founded by the director herself in 2010), Switzerland (Ticino-based E-Motion Swiss and Radiotelevisione svizzera RSI) and France (Eloise Films), and backed by the Ticino Film Commission, Tramonto a Nord Ovest sees Luisa Porrino stepping behind the camera for the second time in her career.

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Having previously taken an interest in second generation Arab immigrants in Italy in her first feature film Porto il Velo, Adoro i Queen (selected for the Rome Independent Film festival in 2016), Luisa Porrino is returning to her native Piedmont to shoot an introspective film which examines nature as a reflection of our own inner torments. Whilst the first part of the tale unfolds between the city of Biella and the Italian Prealps, the second is set in the Canton of Ticino in a coming and going of villages and natural scenery which endows the film with an additional layer of mystery.

Tramonto a Nord Ovest is a coming-of-age tale which sees two young, soon-to-be-parents racked with doubts and fears. Their names are Luca and Margherita, and they are played by Giuseppe Saccotelli and Margherita Fantina, two young actors hailing from Turin’s New Theatre Academy. The duo are flanked by the rather more seasoned actor of Swiss origin Leonardo Nigro, who has toplined a number of successful Swiss movies, including The Stone Eater [+lire aussi :
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and Oro Verde (which won Nigro the Swiss TV and Film Prize for Best Supporting Role in 2014) and who appears in the present title as Bacci, a man living in an old mountain cabin near the border.

The film’s two twenty-something protagonists Luca and Margherita are at a crucial moment in their lives which triggers different reactions in each of them. Whilst Luca feels the need to get away from everything, to escape the world he knows (too) well and to visit his friend Paolo (played by Marco Rezoagli) who has chosen to live amongst the mountains as a shepherd and astronomer, Margherita decides to stay in the city, left alone with her doubts. Luca’s journey to find his friend Paolo turns out to be something of an initiation which sees him reconnecting with nature as he seeks out protection; a nest in which to rest and to think about the life which awaits him. In the course of his journey, Luca meets a series of characters inhabiting their own parallel micro-universes: real frontier locations (in the case of the two refugees who seek refuge in the mountains, played by newcomers Chaimae Sellek and Mohamed Makkal El Idrissi) or imaginary ones (in the case of those who dream of an alternative to real life, like Luca), at which point the majestic scenery surrounding the characters takes on the role of the film’s third protagonist, pending the reunion of the two lead actors.

The cast and crew of Porrino’s new movie are young and dynamic, composed of numerous actors making their debut in the film world, the very young set designer Ludovica Spacca, the equally fresh-faced costume designer Nadia Pistoretto and newcomer Irene Castrogiovanni in the role of camerawoman and steadycam helmer. Photography, however, has been entrusted to Marina Kissopoulos for the second time, following her work on the director’s first film.

The movie is now entering into post-production, with editing set to unfold at some point between June and September.

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