12/10/2012 - The man behind Diaz: don’t clean up this blood turns to Melania Mazzucco’s novel ‘Limbo’ as basis for his next film. Producer is Fandango

After Diaz: don’t clean up this blood [+see also:
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film profile] (presented in Venice this year - read news story), Daniele Vicari is set to shoot a war film based on ‘Limbo’, Melania Mazzucco’s latest novel which came out this year (her novel ‘A perfect day’ was adapted into a film by the same name in 2008 by Ferzan Ozpetek).

While his project remains without title, the script, written by Vicari and Laura Paolucci has been put down. The story follows Manuela, a young soldier who returns home after being severely wounded in Afghanistan. The young woman has to fight her own insidious war at home, battling memories and deceptions, as well as social stereotypes of female victimhood.

One day, she meets Mattia, a man without a past, just like her. He too is suspended in a limbo of wait and hope. The encounter helps Manuela come to terms with her story and discover that living is always worth it, because no one is what they seem, least of all her.

“In Melania Mazzucco’s book,” Vicari explained, “I found a forceful, absorbing account of the war in Afghanistan in narrative terms for the first time. It was the story of a woman soldier who experienced first hand the drama of an unfinished and truly terrible war removed from our popular consciousness. This, despite the fact that Iraq and Afghanistan are wars that profoundly affected our generation.”

Domenico Procacci’s Fandango will produce the film.

(Translated from Italian)