Fabio Mollo’s second feature blends an offbeat love story with a freewheeling road movie to examine a generation poised on the brink of adulthood. Paolo (Luca Marinelli) has recently broken up with his longtime boyfriend over the issue of raising children. He is nursing his sorrow in a Turin nightclub when a woman collapses in his arms. Mia (Isabella Ragonese), a six-months-pregnant free spirit living from hand to mouth, commandeers Paolo to join her in a haphazard search for the child’s father.
After “borrowing” his boss’s van, they embark on an epic road-trip from the north to the south of Italy that takes them beyond sexual categories, over-prolonged youth, and the weight of their pasts. Citing Xavier Dolan and Gianni Amelio as influences, director Mollo delivers a rich character study built on performances that demonstrate why Marinelli and Ragonese (Italian Golden Globe Best Actress Award-winner) are two of Italy’s hottest actors.
Director: Fabio Mollo
Italy, 2017, 92 min
Film in Italian with English Subtitles
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Embassy of Italy
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Fabio Mollo was born in Italy’s Calabria region and studied Visual Theory at the University of East London. He has made several short films, including Giants (2007), which screened at the Berlin Film Festival. He’s been an assistant on film and television productions and directed several episodes of the MTV series Black Box. In 2013, he made his feature debut with The South Is Nothing, which played several festivals including Toronto, Rome, and Berlin. In 2015, he made his first documentary, Vincenzo da Crosia.