In an intimate picture with captivating visuals that premiered at Sundance, director Giorgio Diritti (The Man Who Will Come – KVIFF 2010) takes his heroine to Brazil. Thirty-year-old Augusta, broken by recent painful events, is trying to recover her faith in the meaning of life. The excellent Jasmine Trinca stars.
Director Giorgio Diritti has been exploring man’s relationship to nature since his debut film The Wind Blows Round. His third film now sees him leaving Italy and the safe world of "advanced civilization.” After a series of painful events, 30-year-old Augusta sets out for Brazil in an attempt to rediscover her lost faith in the meaning of life. Alongside an aging Catholic missionary, she travels along the Amazon, quietly exploring remote places and getting to know their inhabitants. Afterwards, she settles in the favela of the port city of Manaus, living with a family and temporarily becoming a part of it. But Augusta needs absolute isolation in order to look inside and come to terms with her traumatic past. In his meditative film, Diritti successfully expands his "injured” protagonist’s purely personal soul-searching pilgrimage to include social and political issues, while making spectacular but in no way superficial use of his captivating, photogenic locations.
105 min / Color, HD CAM
Director Giorgio Diritti
/ Screenplay Giorgio Diritti, Tania Pedroni, Fredo Valla
/ Dir. of Photography Roberto Cimatti
/ Music Marco Biscarini, Daniele Furlati
/ Editor Esmeralda Calabria
/ Producer Lionello Cerri, Giorgio Diritti, Simone Bachini
/ Production Lumière & Co S.R.L., Aranciafilm, Groupe Deux SARL
/ Cast Jasmine Trinca, Anne Alvaro, Pia Engleberth
/ Contact Elle Driver
Giorgio Diritti (b. 1959, Bologna) learned filmmaking while working with numerous Italian directors, among them Carlo Lizzani and Lina Wertmüller, but especially Pupi Avati. He has also organized casting sessions for films shot in the Emilia-Romagna region (including Fellini’s The Voice of the Moon) and has collaborated with Ermanno Olmi’s Ipotesi Cinema. As a director and screenwriter, Diritti has created numerous documentaries, short films, and TV series. He debuted with the documentary Sailor Cap (1990); his first feature film, The Wind Blows Round (2005), was nominated for five David di Donatello Awards and was screened at numerous festivals, including KVIFF 2007. His drama The Man Who Will Come screened at Karlovy Vary in 2010. There Will Come a Day had its world premiere at Sundance Festival this year.
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