13/05/2005

During the 2001 Mostra di Venezia (the Venice Film Festival), Daniele Vicari won the First Works Award for Velocità massima. Today, his second film, L’orrizonte degli eventi, opens the Critic's Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film will be distributed in Italy by Medusa as from Friday, May 20 with 80 film prints. As in Marco Tullio Giordana’s film, in official competition, the film depicts the connection between us and the immigrants’ world. On the one hand there is Max a 35 year-old nuclear physician, who is going through an existential and professional crisis, on the other hand there is Bajram, a young Albanian shepherd, who becomes his compatriots’ slave.
Directors Giuseppe De Santis (Uomini e lupi) and the Taviani brothers (Il sole anche di notte) worked on the script entitled “l'Abruzzo con il Gran Sasso”. Vicari "discovered a simultaneously technological and archaic mountain where this nuclear physics laboratory, a hyper-technological place looking towards the future and the pre-modern world where shepherds survive live together. A double universe made of globalization layers and metaphors." In the first part of the film, the camera movements are "mathematical", scheduled, whereas in the second part, they are more irregular, non scheduled.

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L'orizzonte degli eventi pays tribute to the history of Italian cinema. "I took my inspiration on critical neorealism of Visconti and De Sica, I have a visceral link with this cinema, which uses atmospheres as the characters’ inner world" says the filmmaker.

Domenico Procacci, of Fandango, the film co-producer with Medusa, underlines the need to make films that have a difficult market aspect. Nastri e David by Sorrentino which was a great success shows how much it is important to invest in first and secondary works since every author can grow up.