Italy

CONTROVENTO

CREDITS 

35mm - Colore - 98’

Direction: Peter Del Monte
Script: Gloria Malatesta, Claudia Sbarigia, Peter Del Monte
Screenplay: Claudia Sbarigia, Gloria Malatesta. Peter Del Monte
Photography: Saverio Guarna
Musics: Paolo Silvestri
Editing: Simona Paggi
Setting: Tommaso Bordone
Costumes: Metella Raboni
Cast: Valeria Golino, Margherita Buy, Ennio Fantastichini, Maria Monti, Rosaria Caracciolo, Stefano Abbati, Stefania Marsala.
Production: Poetiche Cinematografiche, Controvento Film, Telepiu', Istituto Luce
Distribution: Istituto Luce

SYNOPSIS

Clara is a psychiatrist in a Centre for Mental Diseases in Turin. In order to protect herserlf from that blind area that she faces every day, she has built a sheltered universe preserving her from the great emotions of life. Her younger sister seems to throw her life away, always escaping from something or someone. One day, while Nina is away on a trip, Clara meets a man who is looking for her sister. His name is Leonardo and is a nurse. At first she is very rough to him, but then the curiosity to know him better as well as the discovery of something that she likes of him follow.

CRITICAL NOTES

"(…) Fantastichini, is really skilful. And also the two actresses are clever, not very harmoniously matched, physically improbabile as sisters, but capable to espress the tie which is chaste and deep at the same time”. (Lietta Tornabuoni)