In Elisa Amoruso’s first feature-length drama, the places tell stories just as the characters do. They appear to spring from the memories of the director who, one spring many years ago, moved with her family to the outskirts of Rome. The colours are bright, vivid, like those in old films and vintage photographs. The film’s main focus is Nina, catapulted into a new existence in the middle of nowhere, Cinecittà est on the outskirts of Rome – no shops, only beehive-like buildings on the edge of countryside – which, however, pulses with originality and vitality.
Her ebullient, but untrustworthy, father sells cameras at the Porta Portese flea market, her adoring but unsatisfied mother tries occasionally to create some space for herself: part of the film was shot at the seaside, on the beach between Sabaudia and San Felice Circeo near torre Paola which was erected to defend that stretch of coastline in the 1500s from Saracen pirates.
In Elisa Amoruso’s first feature-length drama, the places tell stories just as the characters do. They appear to spring from the memories of the director who, one spring many years ago, moved with her family to the outskirts of Rome. The colours are bright, vivid, like those in old films and vintage photographs. The film’s main focus is Nina, catapulted into a new existence in the middle of nowhere, Cinecittà est on the outskirts of Rome – no shops, only beehive-like buildings on the edge of countryside – which, however, pulses with originality and vitality.
Her ebullient, but untrustworthy, father sells cameras at the Porta Portese flea market, her adoring but unsatisfied mother tries occasionally to create some space for herself: part of the film was shot at the seaside, on the beach between Sabaudia and San Felice Circeo near torre Paola which was erected to defend that stretch of coastline in the 1500s from Saracen pirates.
