25/07/2017 - The debut fictional piece by documentary makers Luca Bellino and Silvia Luzi is the only Italian title being shown in competition at International Critics’ Week at Venice

Sharon Caroccia in Crater

A Disney fairy-tale turned on its head. That’s the description given by the production team of Crater [+see also:
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It’s a first for the protagonists of the film too, Rosario and Sharon Caroccia, who are father and daughter in the film and in real life. Sharon was chosen because she’s a young Neapolitan “neomelodic” singer with millions of hits on the Internet, and indeed for the two directors, the film is “a dream somewhere between Bellissima by Luchino Visconti and the stripped down reinterpretation of neomelodic music”.

The official synopsis for the film states that “Crater is a land of losers, a vague space of constant noise. Rosario is a peddler, a gypsy street performer who gives soft toys to players who pick out a winning number. The war he’s declared on the future and his destiny has the immature body and indolence of a 13-year-old girl. Sharon is beautiful and a good singer, and in this hotbed of sleights of hand and ugly life, she’s the trick to surviving".

(Translated from Italian)