Italiano
L’Envol by Pietro Marcello, distributed by 01 Distribution, will be released in Italian cinemas on Thursday, January 12th, 2023. The film was presented in the programme of the 17th Rome Film Fest.
L’ENVOL
Director
Pietro Marcello
Nation
France, Italy
Year
2022
Duration
100′
Cast
Juliette Jouan
Raphaël Thiéry
Noémie Lvovsky
Louis Garrel
Yolande Moreau
In France, Juliette, a young, motherless girl who loves music and singing and is a bit of a loner, grows up with her father Raphaël, a veteran of the First World War. One day, a sorceress predicts that a ship with scarlet sails will arrive to take her away from her village. Juliette will always believe in the prophecy.
COMMENTARY
Set in the 1920s in a village in the north of France and loosely based on the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by the Russian author Alexander Grin, the new film by Pietro Marcello in some ways takes its cues from mainstream cinema, while in others it displays an absolutely contemporary use of the medium. Gruff Raphaël Thiéry is superb (he recalls Michel Simon in L’Atalante), and the original use of stock footage here is practically a hallmark of Marcello’s filmmaking. A history novel on film with its soul and gaze imbued in our own present day, L’envol opened the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2022.
PIETRO MARCELLO
One of Italy’s main exponents of documentary filmmaking, Pietro Marcello (born in Caserta in 1976) made his feature debut with a documentary, Crossing the Line (2007). His film The Mouth of the Wolf won the David di Donatello for best documentary and best film at the Torino Film Festival. More acclaim was in store for the elegiac Lost and Beautiful and Martin Eden, adapted from the Jack London novel and starring Luca Marinelli, winner of the Volpi Cup at Venice.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The thing that made me think a film could come out of the novel was the relationship between the
father and daughter. The mother dies and the father takes care of the child. That’s interesting in itself, even more so when the bond breaks. He dies, and she becomes an independent young woman.
