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In a small village in Umbria, film director Gianni Dubois is in deep creative crisis. His home water pipe in Tuscany broke, damaging an ancient fresco of the neighboring church. To avoid paying the damage, he must finance and direct a sacred representation of the Passion of Christ.
Italy, 2010, 106 min.
Directed by Carlo Mazzacurati
Film in Italian with English subtitles
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Carlo Mazzacurati
Born in Padua on March 2, 1956 into a middle-class family, Carlo Mazzacurati developed a passion for the cinema during his high-school years and attempted to enrol at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia three times, each time unsuccessfully.
He later moved to Bologna, where he studied at the school of performing arts DAMS without significant results. After receiving a small inheritance, he decided to invest the money in a short film, Vagabondi (1979), which marked his cinematic debut.
He then moved to Rome with the aim of becoming a scriptwriter. He worked for television, met people in the trade and worked on a script that would later be used by Gabriele Salvatores for Marrakech express (1989).
He made his first feature film, Notte italiana (1987), under the aegis of Nanni Moretti’s newborn production company, Sacher Film. The film – a story of corruption and dirty politics set in the Po delta area – was well received by the critics and won the Silver Ribbon.
Although his next film, Il prete bello (1989), was an academic and pointless adaptation of Goffredo Parise’s eponymous novel, Another Life (Un’altra vita) (1992) confirmed the young film-maker’s talent with a bitter tale set in a gloomy Rome ravaged by urban degradation.
In The Bull (Il toro) (1994), Mazzacurati again focused his attention on losers (in this case two friends who want to sell a powerful breeding bull) seeking an impossible escape from their narrow existences. The same is true of the Czech girl who is the leading character in Vesna va veloce (1996), a film that includes an accomplished performance from Silvio Orlando. David’s Summer (L’estate di Davide) (1998), a television movie subsequently adapted to the big screen, is a highly sensitive portrayal of the sometimes tough sentimental education of a boy on holiday in the Polesine region.Mazzacurati died in Padua on January 22, 2014.
Synopsis
When you’re over fifty, it becomes increasingly difficult to be an up-and-coming director. Gianni Dubois knows this very well. He hasn’t made a film for years, and now that he has the chance to direct a young TV star he can’t even think of a story and, to make things worst, a leak in his apartment in Tuscany ruined the 16th century Fresco in the chapel next door. To avoid being sued and publicly shamed, Gianni must accept the bizarre proposal of the town Major to direct the Good Friday celebrations in exchange for immunity. He find himself spending a week in Tuscany trying to put together the Stations of the Cross, with the Apostles, Pontius Pilate and a terrible and incredibly vain local actor playing the part of Christ.
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