IL MNEMONISTA
by Paolo Rosa
synopsis
Too many memories will drive you crazy. "S" has an exceptional memory and decides to ask professor "L", a world-famous psychologist to help him limit this double-edged gift when the notes on a sheet of music that "S" is sight-reading explode into thousands of vibrantly coloured moving dots. "S" and "L" soon go well beyond the normal doctor-patient relationship and the doctor finds that he finds "S", his stories and his extraordinary gifts quite fascinating. "S" does not get any relief from his sessions with the doctor, abandons the therapy and starts to work in variety shows as a "memory man" in theatres and cabarets. This is the only thing he knows that can "free" him from his omnivorous memory skills. But perhaps there still is one way left to stop the "mnemonist" from remembering everything.
original title: | Il mnemonista |
country: | Italy |
year: | 2000 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Paolo Rosa |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | IT 25/08/2000 |
screenplay: | Lara Fremder, Paolo Rosa, Giliano Corti |
cast: | Sandro Lombardi, Roberto Herlitzka, Sonia Bergamasco, Sergio Bini, Cristina Proserpio, Pietro Lombardi, Ermanna Montanari, Angela Parmigiani |
cinematography by: | Fabio Cirifino |
film editing: | Jacopo Quadri |
art director: | Stefano Gargiulo, Esther Musatti |
costumes designer: | Bettina Pontiggia |
music: | Luca Francesconi |
producer: | Daniele Maggioni, Gianfilippo Pedote |
production: | Studio Azzurro, Tele + |
distributor: | Mikado |