CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC
Apulia region 1953. Nena, a young woman from a small town, is appointed as a primary school teacher in a remote village in Southern Salento. She is excited to start her first job, but sad at the same time, as she has to leave behind the young man she is in love with. This relation does not impress her mother, because the boy belongs to the upper class, whereas Nena’s family is humble and financially struggling. The environment Nena finds in the faraway village on the mountains is even worse than she had imagined; she works hard with her students and only slowly learns how to deal with the locals. Her real concern, however, is her distant love story, whose turns and twists will force her to some difficult choices.
The movie is as much about the growth and transformation of a young woman set to face a patriarchal and traditionalist society, as it is about a natural, human and social landscape carefully observed and represented. The beauty of the photography, the elegance of the movements of the camera, the charm of an isolated way of life never turn out as a mere kind of icing-the cake device. This distant world is pictured with respect and truthfulness, and the onlooker soon finds out that these dynamics are not as different from those one experiences nowadays.
Italy 2010, 90 min.
Directed by Giorgia Cecere
Film in Italian with English subtitles
TRAILER (via Youtube)
Cineforum movie series is presented in collaboration with Italians in DC
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LOCATION
Embassy of Italy
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
THE DIRECTOR
Born in Castrignano del Capo, Lecce, in 1961, Giorgia Cecere studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome with Gianni Amelio. She collaborated with Amelio at his movies Porte Aperte (Open doors), 1990, and Il ladro di bambini (The stolen children), 1992. She has worked also at Ipotesi Cinema, the cinema lab founded by Ermanno Olmi in 1982, where she made the featurette (medium-length) Mareterra, 1987. She also wrote the story and the screenplay of two movies directed by Edoardo Winspeare, Sangue vivo, 2000, and Il miracolo, 2003. Il Primo incarico is her first feature film.
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