On 30 August 1970, Marquis Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino killed his wife Anna Fallarino and her young lover, before taking his own life. This tragic news story is the inspiration behind Gli occhi degli altri, the new film by Andrea De Sica (Children of the Night [+lire aussi :
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The film is toplined by Jasmine Trinca (awarded two David di Donatello awards, recently recognised for her role in The Art of Joy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Fabio et Damiano D'Innocenzo
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Gli occhi degli altri was written by Gianni Romoli, Silvana Tamma and Andrea De Sica, based on a subject by Romoli and De Sica. The film is set amidst the wild beauty of an island owned by a very rich Marquis, where a passionate love story unfolds following the arrival of Elena. Complicity and transgression, sex and power all intersect in this film which is loosely based on a true story which took place in Italy in the ‘60s, where erotic gameplay gave way to obsession.

“The eyes are those which watch and which they want to be watched by when the shamelessly D’Annunzio-style, decadent, amoral and excessive protagonists make love”, the Rome Film Fest press kit explains. “Filippo Timi and Jasmine Trinca bring their characters to life with such abandon and commitment that we forget the film’s historical nature, going so far as to project the protagonists into the present. It’s a rich, baroque and bored world built around voyeurism and evoked by Andrea De Sica with a keen sense of melodrama laced with film noir eroticism and direct references to directors ranging from Kubrick to Hitchcock. It’s a film to which viewers can let themselves go, without shame”.

Cinematography is entrusted to Gogò Bianchi (Breve storia d’amore, which has been selected for the next Rome Film Fest) and costumes to Massimo Cantini Parrini (awarded six David di Donatello trophies, most recently for The Flood [+lire aussi :
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Gli occhi degli altri is being produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa on behalf of Vivo film and by Sonia Rovai for Wildside - a Fremantle subsidiary - and Vision Distribution, in collaboration with Sky. The film is sold worldwide by Vision Distribution, who are also handling distribution in Italy.