Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio Isotta Toso
Synopsis In a building Piazza Vittorio in Rome, is in a stage show of daily coexistence between different ethnic groups. Under the eyes of the concierge malicious Benedetta, browse a bourgeois woman who despises the domestic Ecuadorian, a university teacher in Milan, a lawyer who retired after the suicide of his father, a bully elderly who live by their wits, a condominium with the defect model of philanthropy and an exiled Iranian seeking political asylum. A mysterious death in the lift force to cross the condominiums their lives and raise underlying tensions. Watch the trailer
Opera before a small film director Roman and trying to tell today's Italy with the weapon of irony and outrage civil Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio is adapted from a novel by Amara Lakhous (publisher and / or). An ensemble film set in Rome in the Piazza Vittorio, not far from Termini Station, which once housed a market, and today has become the refuge and the new immigrant communities in the Middle East and China. A place that seems about to explode, not because of the tensions that will meander (that where there is a flourishing trade in the coexistence of people is easier), but because the rules of living in our country seem to be subverted, with pale faces the Italians and their antiquated rules or do not respect that seem out of place, literally (and not to sit behind the slogan of the League) "foreigners in their homes."
The novel idea, taken up and developed by the director Isotta Toso, it's all here: take a historic building in Rome, a symbol of an Italian soul glorious but now uncertain, and make a patchwork of people, nationalities and ethnic groups to serve as the symbol of the Italian multi-ethnic society. A society still fragile, as a matter of definition, torn between rejection and acceptance, coexistence, and forced the mutual exploitation of their resources.
In the film all the characters live in the building a bit 'shooting protagonist: Iranians, Arabs, Africans, Algerians, Romans, illegal. All argue with everyone, and for any reason: for use of the elevator, the dog barking always on the nerves because it's hot, it's summer, because must always going to wait and talk to the police station. Live badly, every time someone dies, and then others are forced to stop and wonder, perhaps with difficulty, the reasons for which they prefer confrontation to dialogue, lite by comparison.
In the best tradition of Italian comedy, choral stories heralding the backdrop of a working-class Rome, the film is constructed as a moral parable and openly challenge the danger of the assumption pedantic and didactic, rather trying to make the paradox and cliché of the possible interpretations of the millennium Italy. Not always Isotta Toso is successful, puts all his ideology on the table and perhaps exaggerates in the doses, but the pamphlet has the courage of the undertaking, makes a few claims to common sense amid the ruins of derelict and the cast works well in the contamination of styles, mainly due to Serra Yilmaz (the actress's favorite Ozpetek ), Roberto Citran , Milena Vukotic , Isa Danieli, Ninetto Davoli .
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio will not be an example of the Italian cinema that will take us out of the crisis of ideas and looks that always hits this country (as may be the next film of the program, The four times and The mouth of the wolf), but is a healthy breath of fresh air that makes you think with a smile on the major and crucial issues of our open society. If you do not think about politics, after all, that is fine cinema.
Director: Isotta Toso. Subject: novel by Amara Lakhous. Written by: Maura vespina, Isotta Toso, with the collaboration of Andrea Cotti. Photography: Fabio Zamarion. Music: Gabriele Coen, Mario Rivera. Editor: Patrizio Marone . Set Design: Anna Forletta. Costumes: Eva Coen. Cast: Kasia Smutniak (Giulia) Daniele Liotti (Marco Manfredini), Serra Yilmaz (Nurit), Ahmed Hafiene (Amedeo), Marco Rossetti (Lorenzo, Gladiator), Kesia Elwin (Maria Cristina), Isa Danieli (Benedetta), Milena Vukotic (Mrs. Fabiani), Luigi Diberti (Angel Manfredini), Roberto Citran (Antonio Marini), Francesco Pannofino (Sandro Dandini), Ninetto Davoli (Richard), Fabio Traversa (Deputy Bettarini), Paolo Calabresi (Commissioner Bettarini), Manuela Morabito (Manuela), Vincenzo Crivello (Tano) , Massimo De Santis (Leo), Lamine Labidi (Iqbal), Sara Labidi (Penelope), Gabriel Zagni (Abdallah). Production: Maura vespina, Sandro Silvestri Emme and Rai Cinema. Distribution: Bolero Film. Origin: Italy 2009. Duration: 96 '.
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