01/07/2011

A catalogue that goes against the trend, which does not rest on comedy, but on strong, important, dramatic stories. Domenico Procacci’s Fandango will bring eight films (five of which are Italian) to our screens in the coming months. First of all, the much talked-about Diaz by Daniele Vicari (see news), an international production with France and Romania, the filming of which started last Saturday in Bucharest, and which will tell the tragic events that took place on the night between July 21-22 2001 in Genoa during the G8. “Comedy cannot be the only way to tell a story,” said Procacci, while presenting the line-up for 2011 this morning at Rome’s Cinema House. “Even though the takings are very good, it musn’t become a constraint. After all, it is not comedies that take our films abroad. We have been lucky with Loose cannons [+see also:
trailer
film profile], but that is an exceptional case. It is enough to look at the last Cannes Festival.”

And so, in Fandango’s catalogue, there is also Rust by Daniele Gaglianone (author of Pietro [+see also:
trailer
film profile], in competition at the Locarno Film Festival 2010 – see news). Based on the novel by Stefano Massaron, it is a film noir set in a small industrial town in Northern Italy in the 1970s, and stars Filippo Timi, Stefano Accorsi, Valerio Mastandrea and Valeria Solarino.

Space is also given to two directorial debuts – that of the famous cartoonist Gipi, aka Gianni Pacinotti with L'ultimo terrestre (see news), in which aliens are the ones to save a world that is incapable of changing, and that of the director from Puglia, Pippo Mezzapesa, who has already made award-winning documentaries and short-films, with The Land of Unhappy Brides, based on the novel by Mario Desati.

The only concession to comedy (it’s still an arthouse film) is Gli sfiorati by Matteo Rovere (Girls’ play [+see also:
trailer
film profile], in competition at the Rome Film festival 2008 - see news), based on the novel by Sandro Veronesi, with Michele Riondino, Asia Argento and Claudio Santamaria – a bold portrait of the slightly unruly kids of the ‘noughties’.

The three international films that will be distributed by Fandango, on the other hand, are The Path by Bosnian Jasmila Zbanic (Golden Bear in berlin wih Esma’s secret [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Barbara Albert
interview: Jasmila Zbanic
film profile]), La faida by Joshua Marston (director of Maria piena di grazia) and On the road by Walter Salles, from the novel by Jack Kerouac.

(Translated from Italian)