Ivano De Matteo’s Mia was filmed entirely in Rome, in particular in the Ostiense district, where the main characters live. It tells the story of a family like many others: Sergio, Valeria (Edoardo Leo, Milena Mancini) and their fifteen-year-old daughter Mia (Greta Gasbarri). They live in the Marconi area, as Mia reveals in a scene of the film: their building is located at via Luigi Magrini 18 on a side street off viale Guglielmo Marconi.
Distinctive elements of the area include the gazometro, visible in several scenes, including when Marco (Riccardo Mandolini) insists on giving Mia a lift; the Cestia pyramid, near her school (the De Amicis Cattaneo institute on via Galvani); piazzale della Radio, where Sergio picks up Mia one night after a long search for her; lungotevere Testaccio, location of the tattoo shop where Mia first meets Marco and, steps away, the (real-life) Tevere bar, a meeting place for Mia's friends, in largo Giovanni Battista Marzi.
Mia's life, and consequently her parents’, is turned upside down when she starts dating Marco, whose controlling nature is revealed only gradually. Early in their relationship, they kiss in front of the deconsecrated Church of Sant'Antonio da Padova (now a facade with two lateral niches) which stands in the small square between the two flights of steps that connect via Garibaldi to the ancient Church of San Pietro in Montorio, which were decorated in 1957 with polychrome terracotta Stations of the Cross by sculptor Carmelo Pastor Pla. Marco begins to reveal manipulative tendencies at the Appia Joy park (via Annia Regilla 245) where there are 30 life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
On Marco's birthday, the couple rides a scooter down via Cristoforo Colombo at the height of the characteristic porticoes of the EUR district, notable for its Rationalist architecture. A frame from the intersection with viale della Civiltà del Lavoro, offers a glimpse of the austere, illuminated mass of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (the so-called Square Colosseum).
Locations also included a side entrance to the disused Carlo Forlanini hospital, which provided the entrance to the drug addicts’ hideout.
Ivano De Matteo’s Mia was filmed entirely in Rome, in particular in the Ostiense district, where the main characters live. It tells the story of a family like many others: Sergio, Valeria (Edoardo Leo, Milena Mancini) and their fifteen-year-old daughter Mia (Greta Gasbarri). They live in the Marconi area, as Mia reveals in a scene of the film: their building is located at via Luigi Magrini 18 on a side street off viale Guglielmo Marconi.
Distinctive elements of the area include the gazometro, visible in several scenes, including when Marco (Riccardo Mandolini) insists on giving Mia a lift; the Cestia pyramid, near her school (the De Amicis Cattaneo institute on via Galvani); piazzale della Radio, where Sergio picks up Mia one night after a long search for her; lungotevere Testaccio, location of the tattoo shop where Mia first meets Marco and, steps away, the (real-life) Tevere bar, a meeting place for Mia's friends, in largo Giovanni Battista Marzi.
Mia's life, and consequently her parents’, is turned upside down when she starts dating Marco, whose controlling nature is revealed only gradually. Early in their relationship, they kiss in front of the deconsecrated Church of Sant'Antonio da Padova (now a facade with two lateral niches) which stands in the small square between the two flights of steps that connect via Garibaldi to the ancient Church of San Pietro in Montorio, which were decorated in 1957 with polychrome terracotta Stations of the Cross by sculptor Carmelo Pastor Pla. Marco begins to reveal manipulative tendencies at the Appia Joy park (via Annia Regilla 245) where there are 30 life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
On Marco's birthday, the couple rides a scooter down via Cristoforo Colombo at the height of the characteristic porticoes of the EUR district, notable for its Rationalist architecture. A frame from the intersection with viale della Civiltà del Lavoro, offers a glimpse of the austere, illuminated mass of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (the so-called Square Colosseum).
Locations also included a side entrance to the disused Carlo Forlanini hospital, which provided the entrance to the drug addicts’ hideout.
This is the story of a normal family whose happy existence is upended when a controlling boyfriend aggressively bursts into their orbit ruining their wonderful fifteen-year-old daughter’s life. With her father’s help, she manages to get away and start anew, until the boy decides to destroy her. Her father has only one choice: revenge.
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