LONG LIVE THE MONKEY
by Marco Colli
synopsis
The grotesque drama of two unmarried sisters is played out in a rundown middle-class apartment block, inhabited by people from all walks of life. The return of one of the sisters, in fact, jazzes up the lives of everyone in the building. Although wildly different the two women are weighed down by the same background and their cultural baggage of bourgeois respectability and pious hypocrisy.
Completely under the thumb of their elderly handicapped mother, they both worship a little monkey called Tombo, all they have left of their father who died in Africa many years before.
international title: | Long Live the Monkey |
original title: | Viva la scimmia |
country: | Italy |
year: | 2000 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Marco Colli |
film run: | 82' |
release date: | IT 29/11/2002 |
screenplay: | Marco Colli, Idolina Landolfi, Gianni Di Gregorio, Landolfo Landolfi |
cast: | Giuliana De Sio, Lunetta Savino, Giovanni Esposito, Claudio Spadaro, Daniela Fazzolari |
cinematography by: | Claudio Meloni |
film editing: | Luca Benedetti |
art director: | Simona Garotta |
costumes designer: | Patrizia Ciairano |
music: | Mario Tronco, Peppe D’Argenzio |
producer: | Enzo Porcelli, Claudio Vecchio |
production: | Alia Film, Afa Film |
backing: | Direzione generale Cinema e audiovisivo del Ministero della Cultura DGCA - MIC |
distributor: | Sharada |