PRETTY BUTTERFLIES
synopsis
3 August, Cagliari: a poor neighborhood. At three in the morning eleven-year-old Cate is woken by the screams of her eccentric neighbor. Cate wants to run away from that apartment, from her numerous and problematic siblings and her tyrannical father. Only Gigi, a neighbor, is worthy of her love. She does not want to end up like her sister Mandarina, who got pregnant at thirteen. Or like Samantha, the neighborhood sex siren. And today, on 3 August, Gigi’s life is in danger: Tonio, Cate’s brother, wants to kill him. Cate warns Luna, her best friend. The two of them spend the longest day of their lives between the city, the sea and a thousand adventures. But her beloved Gigi is in danger. And when everything seems lost, during the night a beautiful woman appears out of nowhere: the mysterious Aleni, a witch who apparently can see into people’s futures...
international title: | Pretty Butterflies |
original title: | Bellas Mariposas |
country: | Italy |
sales agent: | Pascale Ramonda Paris |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Salvatore Mereu |
film run: | 101' |
release date: | IT 09/05/2013, NL 27/06/2013 |
screenplay: | Salvatore Mereu, from the novel by Sergio Atzeni with the same title |
cast: | Sara Podda, Maya Mulas, Micaela Ramazzotti |
cinematography by: | Massimo Foletti |
film editing: | Paola Freddi |
art director: | Marianna Sciveres, Pietro Rais |
costumes designer: | Alessandro Lai |
music: | Train to Roots, Balentes, Antonio Castrignanò, Rosalba Piras |
production: | Viacolvento, RAI Cinema |
backing: | Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per il cinema, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna |
distributor: | Amstelfilm |