NEL BAGNO DELLE DONNE - Film 94' - 2020
Direction: Marco Castaldi
Cast: Luca Vecchi, Stella Egypt, Daphne Scoccia, Francesca Reggiani, Alessandro Bardani, Andrea Delogu, Luis Molteni, Niccolò Senni, Paolo Triestino, Karen Di Porto, Francesco Apolloni, Nino Frassica
Film script: Marco Alessi, Alessio Lauria, from the novel “Se son rose” by Massimo Vitali
Photography: Vito Frangione
Assembly: Mirco Garrone
Scenography: Roberto Giusini
Costumes: Caterina Nardi
Music: Rossano Baldini
Producer: Galliano Juso, Francesco Cimpanelli, Francesco Bruschettini
Production: Beautiful Film, Kahuna Movies, Rai Cinema, with the contribution of MiBACT
Distribution: Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Italy)
Synopsis:
The culture of “shortcuts”, which is the basis of the malpractice of our country, has taken root more and more and damages any prospect of recovery. Our history fits into this universe. Giacomo, the protagonist, 35 years of laziness, is a man who does not know and does not want to fight. He is an introverted bear, a little nerd but not very social, who walks with his eyes down on one of his devices without giving people what they want from him: just a little attention and a little enthusiasm. He loses his job, is left by his wife and happens to be locked in the bathroom of an arthouse cinema. The world has attacked him, and his reaction is to shut himself up like a child would, deciding to remain stuck in that bathroom, safe from threats, failures and, more generally, from others. His gesture is crazy, childish, extreme, but it realizes a desire that all men have. Giacomo, inside that bathroom, feels like a fetus inside his mother’s belly. And so he makes the most important, crazy and meaningless decision of his life: he decides to stay in there, locked in that bathroom, at least for a while. And this could be the absurd epilogue of a dramatic story, but it is precisely at this point that the story really begins. Because this cowardly, crazy and childish gesture leads to unimaginable consequences
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