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The First Day of My Life

Genre

Film drama

Cast

Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Margherita Buy, Sara Serraiocco, Gabriele Cristini, Lidia Vitale, Antonio Gerardi, Vittoria Puccini, Thomas Trabacchi, Davide Combusti aka The Niro, Giorgio Tirabassi, Lino Guanciale, Elena Lietti

Directed by

Paolo Genovese

The First Day of My Life

Genre

Film drama

Cast

Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Margherita Buy, Sara Serraiocco, Gabriele Cristini, Lidia Vitale,

Directed by

Paolo Genovese
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Where it was filmed 'The First Day of My Life'

I can’t guarantee that you will be happy, on any given day you’ll be a blazing light, on another you will not. But the only thing that really counts is that you are nostalgic about happiness. Maybe this way you will feel like searching it out.”

Paolo Genovese moved the setting of his novel The First Day of My Life from New York to Rome for the film, giving the city a mysterious look, with dark tones and colours, almost supernatural in feel.

Castel Sant’Angelo is the first frame of an Eternal City that – on a ghostly night – watches four individuals who have nothing in common but the desire to kill themselves almost at the same moment: a man who coaches others (Valerio Mastandrea); a police officer (Margherita Buy); a former gymnast who lost the use of her legs (Sara Serraiocco); and overweight boy (Gabriele Cristini). That night, in the pouring rain, they find themselves together, all “guests” of a mysterious individual (Toni Servillo) who picked them up in the very moment that they were ending their existences, asking for a week to make them change their minds about how they see their lives.

The next day, the four watch the recovery of a body of one of them from the river Tiber, near Riva Ostiense, in the shadow of the gazometro. In the days that follow, in different ways, they begin to become aware of what they have done and face their pain, weaknesses and desires. Under the porticoes of piazza Vittorio Napoleone pushes Emilia’s wheelchair until the girl is forced to admit what her mind refuses to accept. He watches impotently his wife’s feelings of guilt during his funeral at the Church of St. Paul within the Walls, whose Gothic-Romanesque façade of white and red stripes looms in via Nazionale. The platform of the metro B line at Termini station is the setting for his new attempt at suicide: saved by a man whom he had encouraged to open up to the world while singing Leonard Cohen’s immortal Hallelujah.

The most carefree of the 7 days takes place at the seaside on the storied fishing platforms, overlooking the old lighthouse of Fiumicino: here the man makes clam pasta for his four guests who can neither eat nor drink. Scenes were set in Cinecittà Est, in particular outside the Church of San Gioacchino e Anna and near a flower shop in via Rizzieri, and outside Rome, in at Castel Madama in the Aniene valley. The interiors were built on the soundstages at Cinecittà Studios.

Where it was filmed 'The First Day of My Life'

I can’t guarantee that you will be happy, on any given day you’ll be a blazing light, on another you will not. But the only thing that really counts is that you are nostalgic about happiness. Maybe this way you will feel like searching it out.”

Paolo Genovese moved the setting of his novel The First Day of My Life from New York to Rome for the film, giving the city a mysterious look, with dark tones and colours, almost supernatural in feel.

Castel Sant’Angelo is the first frame of an Eternal City that – on a ghostly night – watches four individuals who have nothing in common but the desire to kill themselves almost at the same moment: a man who coaches others (Valerio Mastandrea); a police officer (Margherita Buy); a former gymnast who lost the use of her legs (Sara Serraiocco); and overweight boy (Gabriele Cristini). That night, in the pouring rain, they find themselves together, all “guests” of a mysterious individual (Toni Servillo) who picked them up in the very moment that they were ending their existences, asking for a week to make them change their minds about how they see their lives.

The next day, the four watch the recovery of a body of one of them from the river Tiber, near Riva Ostiense, in the shadow of the gazometro. In the days that follow, in different ways, they begin to become aware of what they have done and face their pain, weaknesses and desires. Under the porticoes of piazza Vittorio Napoleone pushes Emilia’s wheelchair until the girl is forced to admit what her mind refuses to accept. He watches impotently his wife’s feelings of guilt during his funeral at the Church of St. Paul within the Walls, whose Gothic-Romanesque façade of white and red stripes looms in via Nazionale. The platform of the metro B line at Termini station is the setting for his new attempt at suicide: saved by a man whom he had encouraged to open up to the world while singing Leonard Cohen’s immortal Hallelujah.

The most carefree of the 7 days takes place at the seaside on the storied fishing platforms, overlooking the old lighthouse of Fiumicino: here the man makes clam pasta for his four guests who can neither eat nor drink. Scenes were set in Cinecittà Est, in particular outside the Church of San Gioacchino e Anna and near a flower shop in via Rizzieri, and outside Rome, in at Castel Madama in the Aniene valley. The interiors were built on the soundstages at Cinecittà Studios.

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Data sheet

Genre
Film drama
Directed by
Paolo Genovese
Cast
Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Margherita Buy, Sara Serraiocco, Gabriele Cristini, Lidia Vitale, Antonio Gerardi, Vittoria Puccini, Thomas Trabacchi, Davide Combusti aka The Niro, Giorgio Tirabassi, Lino Guanciale, Elena Lietti
Country of production
Italy
Year
2023
Production

Lotus Production - Leone Film GroupMedusa Film

Plot
A mysterious man appears to four people who have reached rock bottom and want to kill themselves, to propose a pact: one week to make them fall in love with life again. His intent is to make them discover what the world would be without them and help them find a new meaning for their existence. A story about the strength to begin again when everything around seems to be crumbling.

The locations

Castel Sant'Angelo
Region: Lazio Type: Castle Territory: Historical centre
Cinecittà Studios
Region: Lazio Type: Theatre Territory: City, Suburbs
Lungotevere – Rome
Region: Lazio Type: River Territory: Historical centre, City
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II – Roma
Region: Lazio Type: Square Territory: Historical centre, City
Aniene Valley Nature Reserve
Region: Lazio Type: Nature reserve / park Territory: Countryside, Suburbs
Rome
Region: Lazio Type: City Territory: Historical centre, City, Suburbs

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