Italiano
Il colibrì by Francesca Archibugi, distributed by 01 Distribution, will be released in Italian cinemas on Friday, October 14th, 2022. The film was presented in the section Grand Public of the 17th Rome Film Fest.
IL COLIBRÌ
Director
Francesca Archibugi
Nations
Italy, France
Year
2022
Duration
126′
Cast
Pierfrancesco Favino
Kasia Smutniak
Bérénice Bejo
Laura Morante
Sergio Albelli
Massimo Ceccherini
Nanni Moretti
The life of Marco Carrera, the “hummingbird”, from the 1970s to a near future. Marco meets Luisa Lattes, a lovely, offbeat kind of girl, at the beach: a love story that never starts yet never ends, all their lives. Marco will marry someone else and move to Rome with Marina and their daughter Adele. When his life takes a tragic turn, Marco makes his return to Florence, buffered against fate’s slings and arrows by Marina’s psychoanalyst, Daniele Carradori.
COMMENTARY
Based on the award-winning novel (the 2020 Strega) that has sold 330,000 copies in Italy and been translated into 25 languages. “A single stream of events on unaligned levels,” according to Francesca Archibugi, who wields the power of memory to convey in images the virtuoso interlocking structure of Sandro Veronesi’s novel. A story of serendipity, loss, regret, and true love, with a stellar cast (Pierfrancesco Favino plays Marco Carrera, for starters), with other cards up its sleeve, from Nanni Moretti to Massimo Ceccherini. It’s a film about our illusions and the price we pay to keep believing in them. It ends on the notes of an original song by Sergio Endrigo, sung by Marco Mengoni.
FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI
Born in Rome in 1960, Francesca Archibugi obtained a degree in directing from the CSC – National Film School and studied screenwriting with Leo Benvenuti and Furio Scarpelli. She won the Solinas Award for screenwriting in 1985. Her first film, Mignon Has Come to Stay, won five David di Donatellos, including best new director and best screenplay. She would garner three more Davids: best film for Towards Evening, best film and screenplay for The Great Pumpkin. She also directed the TV series Renzo e Lucia and Romanzo famigliare
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
I loved the novel by Sandro Veronesi and wanted to stay true to it, while using it as personal material at the same time, which I felt I could do. A single stream of events on unaligned levels, just how people tell the story of their own lives, with episodes that resurface randomly, or so it seems; they’re really connected by hidden threads, of which they are sometimes unaware. In this film, as in my earlier ones, I wanted to cancel the camera and create the perception that the story was telling itself. Sometimes the hardest thing is to frame the face of a man, woman, teens and children. Convey the subtexts. Film the invisible.
