L'amore che ho, Paolo Licata's second work, is the story of Rosa Balestrieri, an elderly once-famous Sicilian singer who wants to rebuild a relationship with her forty-year-old daughter Angela (Tania Bambaci); to do so she is willing to live in her daughter’s dirty and dark cellar and travel the small villages of the Sicilian hinterland to earn a living. In the meantime, flashbacks illuminate her life, from working in the fields as a child, to the forced marriage characterised by violence and the difficult conquest of popularity and success.
The singer is played by three different actresses: Lucia Sardo as an elderly woman, Donatella Finocchiaro as a mature woman, Anita Pomario as a young woman.
Set in Licata (province of Agrigento), Palermo and Florence, L'amore che ho was mainly filmed in Palermo, in the neighbourhoods of Kalsa and Vucciria and the historic centre, also Il Capo, an ancient neighbourhood synonymous with its market and piazza Croce dei Vespri. Filming began in Piana degli Albanesi and continued in the significant places of the character’s life.
L'amore che ho, Paolo Licata's second work, is the story of Rosa Balestrieri, an elderly once-famous Sicilian singer who wants to rebuild a relationship with her forty-year-old daughter Angela (Tania Bambaci); to do so she is willing to live in her daughter’s dirty and dark cellar and travel the small villages of the Sicilian hinterland to earn a living. In the meantime, flashbacks illuminate her life, from working in the fields as a child, to the forced marriage characterised by violence and the difficult conquest of popularity and success.
The singer is played by three different actresses: Lucia Sardo as an elderly woman, Donatella Finocchiaro as a mature woman, Anita Pomario as a young woman.
Set in Licata (province of Agrigento), Palermo and Florence, L'amore che ho was mainly filmed in Palermo, in the neighbourhoods of Kalsa and Vucciria and the historic centre, also Il Capo, an ancient neighbourhood synonymous with its market and piazza Croce dei Vespri. Filming began in Piana degli Albanesi and continued in the significant places of the character’s life.
Dea Film, Moonlight Pictures
1990, Rosa Balistreri is a well-known name in the world of entertainment, art and politics but now elderly, she is at the end of her career. Given many missed opportunities in the past, she decides to recover her relationship with her daughter Angela, now in her forties, before it is too late; Angela has always seen her mother as an enemy, believing her to be dedicated only to her career. Rosa is willing to do anything for another chance, even live in her daughter’s dirty, dark cellar and travel the small villages of the Sicilian hinterland to earn the money she needs. In the meantime, the memories of her entire existence resurface: from the long days as a child spent working in the fields with her father to the forced marriage punctuated with beatings, to the success achieved despite the countless obstacles. Her nature is to be a warrior and so "the singer of the south" decides to come to terms with the past and fight her demons.
