The shoot has wrapped in Rome for Close to Me [+lee también:
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“Close to Me talks about a ‘man who watches’. Luca [Riccardo Scamarcio] is married to Sara [Maria Chiara Giannetta], a woman who’s richer than he is and who recently turned 40 years old. He is a crisis-riddled teacher who, during the lockdown, ends up being a spectator, watching the life of Amanda (Mariela Garriga), his new neighbour. He decides to bridge the gap that separates them, with disastrous consequences,” explains Stefano Sardo. “For a while now, I’ve wanted to make a film about desire: it’s an explosive element of our lives, and yet it’s sorely lacking in Italian cinema, as if we no longer wondered about this mass of dark energy that resides within us all, whether male or female.”

The movie’s cinematography has been entrusted to Francesco Di Giacomo, who worked with Marco Bellocchio on his recent titles Kidnapped [+lee también:
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Written by the director himself together with Giacomo Bendotti, who penned the script for Roberto Andò’s Una storia senza nome [+lee también:
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