"Un giorno della vita", (lit. One day in your life) is Giuseppe Papasso’s first film, starring Alessandro Haber, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Ernesto Mahieux and Pascal Zullino and released on Jan 14th.
The plot is set in the Basilicata region, in 1964.
Salvatore, 12 years old, is now in a reformatory because of his intense passion for cinema. This passion had pushed him every day to bike with his friends Alessio and Caterina to the nearest town to watch old films. In doing so, he had to face daily his father’s hostility. His father is a communist countryman who sees his son’s hobby as “smoke in the eyes”. One day, Salvatore reads of an old 16mm projector for sale and he has the idea of building up a small movie theater in his village. There is just a problem: he has no money. Salvatore buys the projector stealing the money the local Communist Party Section had collected to send a delegation to Togliatti’s funeral. The children’s joy for success lasts only briefly: the adults’ own issues and the State political problems eventually clash with their naïve dream, and Salvatore’s theft is eventually discovered.
The film is a fairytale about the fascinating world of cinema seen through a young boy’s point of view: it heals the soul and the world altogether.
The plot is set in the Basilicata region, in 1964.
Salvatore, 12 years old, is now in a reformatory because of his intense passion for cinema. This passion had pushed him every day to bike with his friends Alessio and Caterina to the nearest town to watch old films. In doing so, he had to face daily his father’s hostility. His father is a communist countryman who sees his son’s hobby as “smoke in the eyes”. One day, Salvatore reads of an old 16mm projector for sale and he has the idea of building up a small movie theater in his village. There is just a problem: he has no money. Salvatore buys the projector stealing the money the local Communist Party Section had collected to send a delegation to Togliatti’s funeral. The children’s joy for success lasts only briefly: the adults’ own issues and the State political problems eventually clash with their naïve dream, and Salvatore’s theft is eventually discovered.
The film is a fairytale about the fascinating world of cinema seen through a young boy’s point of view: it heals the soul and the world altogether.
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