directed by Ascanio Celestini
6 Appointment with the Italian Cinema Istanbul 2015
LONG LIVE THE BRIDE (VIVA LA SPOSA) directed by Ascanio Celestini Cast: Ascanio Celestini, Alba Rohrwacher, Salvatore Striano, Francesco De Miranda, Veronica Cruciani, Pietro Faiella, Corrado Invernizzi, Barbara Valmorin Screenplay: Ascanio Celestini Music: François Couturier Producer: Alessandra Acciai, Giorgio Magliulo, Roberto Lombardi, Francesca Feder, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Arnaud Louvet Production: Malia, Aeternam Films, Les Films du Fleuve, Rai Cinema, supported by MiBACT, in association with BNL Gruppo BNP, with the support of Eurimages, Regione Lazio, CNC Italy, France, Belgium, 2015, 87’ Nicola lives as a puppeteer in one of the bleaker parts of the outskirts of Rome, among petty criminals and drifters, immigrants and laborers. He drinks too much but takes care of the adolescent Salvatore, who may be or not be his son by a local prostitute. His widowed mother has tried to set him up with his schoolfriend Sofia for twenty years, but somehow, they never got together. One day while driving around in his van, he hits and kills Sabatino, an old man, in what at first appears to be an accident. But the old man, who lived off insurance scams by staging accidents with unsuspecting drivers, was simply drunk and miscalculated while stepping in front of Nicola’s car. Still shaken, Nicola offers his help to Sabatino’s son and his mentally handicapped brother and is drawn himself into a netherworld of petty crime gone wrong where everybody’s lives are damaged by the unintended consequences of their actions. He makes his way through the days and nights of a country where there is no hope, but neither is there despair, since the opposite of hope at times is not despair but fatalism. PROGRAMME:28 November hour: 14.0030 November hour: 16.002 December hour: 20.30