Per Amor Vostro (Anna)
2015
RIO DE JANEIRO
INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION
2015
CINEMED
FESTIVAL CINEMA
MEDITERRANÉEN
MONTPELLIER
OPENING NIGHT
2015
FESTIVAL DU FILM
ITALIEN VILLERUPT
MENTION SPÉCIALE
DU JURY
2016
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
ROTTERDAM
OFFICIAL SELECTION
72a MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE
D'ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA
DI VENEZIA
COPPA VOLPI
Directed by Directed by Giuseppe M. Gaudino /feature film/prod. Gaundri, Buena Onda, Eskimo, Figli del Bronx, Bea Product. Co., Minerva Pic. Group, with MiBAC, Rai Cinema, Les Films des Tournelles, CNC ( Centre National du Cinéma)/ 1h 49m/ Dig.2K/2015/ Italy, France
Il Film
Anna has lived in Naples for forty years. Or maybe, judging by the demons that surround her, she is already in Hell. She was a bold and brave little girl. Today she is a sensitive and much too tolerant woman, a prisoner of family duties. A job and a new love give her a chance to find herself again, to begin living far from her nightmares.
2015 - in Competition - 72 Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actress to Valeria Golino
• Premio Pasinetti- Best Actress to Valeria Golino
2015- Rivista del Cinema "RdC Awards" - Best Soundtrack to Epsilon Indi
2016 - Bari International Film Festival
• Anna Magnani Award - Best Actress Valeria Golino
• Alberto Sordi Award - Best Supporting Actor Massimiliano Gallo
• Ennio Morricone Award - Best Music Epsilon Indi
2016 - David di Donatello - Nomination Best Actress Valeria Golino
2016 - Nastri d'Argento
Nomination Best Director Giuseppe M. Gaudino / Nomination Best Actress Valeria Golino /
Nomination Best Supporting Actor Massimiliano Gallo and Adriano Giannini / Nomination Best Cinematography Matteo Cocco / Nomination Best Editing Giogiò Franchini / Nomination Best Soundtrack Epsilon Indi
Synopsis
This is a film of
great contrasts, made up of blinding light, of solar skies and
landscapes, but also shadows. Dark and profound shadows from the underground
that feed and highlight the strength of the light. Naples is a city that
is built on two levels: the subterranean
full of catacombs, cemeteries and
tombs; and the one above ground,
stirred by a rare vitality.
Between these two worlds, between these two levels, torn between opposing forces, Anna, a woman who is both fragile
and strong, starts a real revolution in her life.
Part of its power comes
from these mysterious bowels that extend from the Fontanelle cemetery, beneath the Capodimonte
hill and the whole Sanità area,
from the Purgatorio ad Arco church to
the Catacombs of San Gaudioso.
It is an extensive underground
city that mirrors the one inhabited
by the living, but no less ‘populated’: in
fact it hides thousands and
thousands of skeletons and
the remains of nameless people who died of the plague or in prison or who were too poor to have a proper burial. And
among the various ancient rituals
associated with the cult of the dead
there is also that of ‘adopting’
a skull, the ‘capuzzella’
(small head) of a deceased person,
including it in one’s own extended
family, like a relative or ancestor, redeeming it from
anonymity. In addition to saying prayers to it, it
is looked after by polishing it,
placing it in a glass case or more simply in a biscuit tin. The Church
has done all it could to prevent these practices that are considered profane and shut off access
to the underworld, but the Neapolitans in
a peaceful but inexorable have always reclaimed it.
It is a cult
that is still alive and being practised.
It is possible to find small everyday traces of it, evidence someone has visited, such as fresh
flowers or a bus ticket, a request for help or a
note left there by people in need (regarding home, a
job, lottery numbers) which out of affinity
are addressed to those they consider
as poor as themselves. It is a
fair exchange: the living pray and
look after the forgotten and nameless dead in
exchange for help in their real
lives.
This is the help that Anna unwittingly
finds among the ‘capuzzelle’.
Anna finally gets
a full-time contract at the TV
studio where she has been working for
years on short-term contracts. She is prompter,
transcribing actors’ lines and reminding
them of them.
In addition to this, when she is
on the bus that crosses the city on the
long journey between home and
work, mysterious passengers
seem to direct phrases of encouragement,
criticism or comfort to her, that
blend together, overlapping with
her thoughts. They accuse her of having changed,
of no longer being the little girl
who used to fearlessly hover in the sky, during the “flight of the angel”. In
fact, Anna was chosen every
year for her courage, because she was the only child who would
launch herself into the void attached only
to a rope suspended between the bell tower and a building, during one
of the most intriguing cultural ceremonies in Italian popular piety, for the traditional feast of the Assumption.
Now this courage seems to have abandoned her. That little girl is gone. Over the years she has accepted,
for the sake of other people, so much that her true nature
has been ‘tarnished’. The problems
in the family, disagreements with her
husband, events related to crime. This is the
hell that surrounds her every day and
which she cannot see. It is the story of her slow
path to the unveiling of things, towards the light.
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Credits
Director Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Story by Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Screenplay Giuseppe M. Gaudino - Isabella Sandri - Lina Sarti
Cinematography Matteo Cocco
Editing Giogiò Franchini
Set design Flaviano Barbarisi - Antonella Di Martino
Costume design Alessandra Torella
Sound Daniele Maraniello - Dario Calvari - Sergio De Vito - Tullio Arcangeli - Marco Saitta
Original music Epsilon Indi
Produced by
Giuseppe M. Gaudino and Isabella Sandri for Gaundri
Riccardo Scamarcio e Viola Prestieri for Buena Onda
Dario Formisano for Eskimo
Gaetano Di Vaio for Figli del Bronx
Giovanni Cottone for Bea Production Company
Gianluca Curti for Minerva Pictures Group
with Rai Cinema and MIBAC - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
coproduced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint for Les Films des Tournelles
CNC – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée
Distribution Officine Ubu
World sales Rai Com
FESTIVALS
· Cinema Italian Style - Seattle 2016
· Cinema Made in Italy - London 2016
· Festa do Cinema Italiano - Lisbona 2016: Panorama
· Festival del Cinema Italiano di Stoccolma 2016
· Festival del Cinema Italiano di Tokyo 2016
· Festival du Cinema Italien de Bastia 2016: Hors-Compétition
· Festival International du Film de Mons 2016: Compétition Internationale
· Festival Terra di Cinema -Tremblay en France 2016: Compétition Fiction
· Italian Film Festival in Scotland 2016
· Lavazza Italian Film Festival Australia 2016: Donne italiane
· NICE New italian Cinema Events Festival - USA 2016: Fuori Concorso
· Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016: Signatures
· Viva il Cinema! Journées du film italien à Tours 2016
· Appuntamento con il cinema italiano - Istanbul 2015
· Cinemed - Festival Cinema Mediterranéen Montpellier 2015: Soirée d'ouverture
· Festival del Cinema Italiano di Madrid 2015: Lungometraggi
· Festival del Cinema Italiano in Brasile 2015
· Festival do Rio 2015: Panorama of World Cinema
· Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt 2015: Compétition - Mention spéciale du Jury
· La Biennale di Venezia 2015: Venezia 72 - Coppa Volpi per la Migliore Attrice
· Les rencontres du cinéma italien à Toulouse 2015: Avant-premières
· MittelCinemaFest 2015
· Mostra de Cinema Italià de Barcelona 2015
· Italian Film Focus - Sud Africa 2015
Cast
Valeria Golino
Massimiliano Gallo
Adriano Giannini
Salvatore Cantalupo
Rosaria De Cicco
Elisabetta Mirra
Daria D'Isanto
Edoardo Cró
Virginia D’Abbrescia
Roberto Corcione
Massimo De Matteo
Simona Capozzi
Alfonso Postiglione
Antonella Stefanucci
Lello Radice
Sara Tancredi
Paola Casella
Luisa Esposito
Daniele Sampaio
Stefano Moffa
Vincenzo Pirozzi
Stefano Jotti