Shooting on Tre Ciotole begins in Rome on March 3. The film - an Italian-Spanish production from Cattleya - part of ITV Studios, Ruvido Produzioni, Bartlebyfilm, with Buenapinta Media, Bteam Prods, Colosé Producciones and Perdición Films, and Vision Distribution in collaboration with Sky and with the participation of MAX in Spain - is supported by the MIC - DGCA Fund for the Development of Investment in Cinema and Audiovisual.
Tre Ciotole will be distributed in Spain by BTeam Pictures and in Italy by Vision Distribution who will also manage international pre-sales from tomorrow at the European Film Market (EFM).
The film is based on the novel Tre Ciotole by Michela Murgia, which sold over 200,000 copies in Italy. Directed by the acclaimed Spanish director Isabel Coixet (Un Amor, My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Words, Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo) who also co-wrote it with Enrico Audenino, it stars Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano. The cast includes Francesco Carril.
Riccardo Tozzi – founder and President of Cattleya states: “Having come across Isabel Coixet and her work many times, I immediately thought of her when I read Michela Murgia's book, knowing that she would be perfect to direct it. She has the ability to describe the most diverse forms of love with great intensity. And to me, the book is a story about love and the meaning of life. We were perfectly in synch with Isabel, she had very clear ideas from the start, beginning with the choice of Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano as the leads. I am particularly excited about producing this film, which is very much in line with Cattleya’s DNA; it is important because it talks about the fundamental things of our experience”.
Massimo Proietti - CEO of Vision Distribution - adds: "We are honored to collaborate on a work of such strength and intensity, one that confirms our path and our attention to female talent, based on a book by a writer whose voice and lucid, profound thought on the themes of modern life was, and still is, a point of reference in Italy, to which, we are sure, Isabel Coixet will lend her style and vision, thanks also to the two splendid actors who play the leads. We thank Cattleya and all the associated producers for the opportunity."
Director Isabel Coixet states: "Tre Ciotole is my interior landscape, the story of a woman facing two challenges at the same time: she’s in the midst of a painful breakup and also facing the inevitable. But she is not a woman to beg or bargain; she is a woman who bows, as one does, to the setting sun, aware that it will rise again, elsewhere, beyond her gaze. I want to tell her story in the Rome of today with delicacy and emotion, because Marta shows us that there can be grace even in a last farewell and that even in pain there is space for joy".
Marta and Antonio split up after what seemed to be a trivial argument. Marta reacts to the separation by withdrawing into herself. The only symptom she cannot ignore is a sudden lack of appetite. Antonio, a rising chef, throws himself into his work. But despite being the instigator of the breakup, he can’t forget Marta. When she discovers that her lack of appetite has more to do with her health than the pain of separation, everything changes: the taste of food, music, desire, the certainty of the choices she made.