Muccino Jr. debuts speaking of love
“This is above all a film about my love for cinema, in particular French films, which taught me to love: from L’Atalante to the Nouvelle Vague,” said Silvio Muccino – the younger brother of filmmaker Gabriele, who last year hit it big in Hollywood as well with The Pursuit of Happyness. Muccino makes his directorial debut with Parlami d’amore [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (“Speak to Me of Love”).
To be released on February 14 on over 500 screens by 01 Distribution, the film’s screenplay was written by Muccino and Carla Vangelista from their eponymous novel.
The film’s visual aspects were a priority for Muccino. “I followed the evocations of Bertolucci’s films,” he said. “The fight scene was shot where Trintignant was hit in The Conformist. And I asked Arnaldo Catinari to keep in mind Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography”.
The film’s aesthetics (emphasised all the more by Tonino Zera’s production design) could also please audiences abroad. The first international release of Parlami d’amore will be in Spain in the autumn.
Muccino, who at 25 has already starred in five box office hits, had no problem convincing the producers of Cattleya as well as Spain’s Alquimia Cinema, who believed in the debut project from the start. “More than the name you bring, what counts is the box office you guarantee and my films all did well,” he added.
However, Parlami d’amore (whose cast also includes a cameo by Geraldine Chaplin as well as Carolina Crescentini and Giorgio Colangeli) is not only aimed at teenagers. On the contrary, he claims: “I wanted to catch my audience off guard, with a story dominated by ghosts from the past, by fear and guilt”.
Such as those that afflict the main characters: Sasha (Muccino), the son of junkie parents who grew up in a rehab community, and Nicole (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón), who cannot forgive herself for the death of her first husband. The Spanish actress previously worked with Cattleya in Gabriele Salvatores’ 2003 film I’m Not Afraid [+see also:
trailer
interview: Gabriele Salvatores
film profile].
(Translated from Italian)
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