Luce by Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino is competing in Locarno
- Produced by Bokeh Film and Stemal Entertainment, the directorial duo’s second movie follows a young woman from southern Italy and her relationship with power
A young woman and a voice on the telephone in a cold and mountainous region of Italy. A fine line separates needs from desires, and imagination from reality… By way of their second work, Luce [+see also:
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Starring Marianna Fontana, whose talent was already clear in her two debut films Indivisible [+see also:
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“We wanted to continue exploring relationships with power, vis-a-vis fathers or bosses”, explain Luzi and Bellino, who are also responsible for the film’s subject and screenplay. “That power that crushes you when it’s family and which alienates you at work. We’ve tried to do this through the turmoil experienced by a young woman, in an environment which would rather have her an ignorant and downtrodden blue-collar worker, and which leads her to make an unhealthy choice in search of an absence and of a voice which soon become a parallel life for her. Which might be an invention or actually more real than reality. Our working method is the one we love most: a screenplay rewritten day by day, real places, real people, continuous shooting, acting which is no longer fiction but which plays out all on its own”.
(Translated from Italian)
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