Basilicata Coast to Coast Friday, 6 May, 2011 TIFF Bell Lightbox 350 King Street West 19:00 Reception – Founders Lounge 20:30 Screening – Cinema 1 Si ringrazia Paco Cinematografica Un film di Rocco Papaleo. Starring Alessandro Gassman, Paolo Briguglia, Max Gazzè, Rocco Papaleo, Giovanna Mezzogiorno.
Commedia musicale, durata 105 min. Trama Da ragazzi erano una band di provincia, adesso sono un professore di matematica, un tabaccaio, un falegname e un attore. Non suonano insieme da più di dieci anni. Ma la passione mai spenta per la musica, riaffiora in una calda estate lucana, così che i quattro musicisti amatoriali, decidono di rimettere su il gruppo per partecipare al festival del teatro-canzone di Policoro…
Basilicata coast to coast è una commedia musicale, un viaggio denso di imprevisti e di incontri inaspettati che porta una combriccola di musicisti a mettersi in viaggio per partecipare al Festival del teatro-canzone di Scanzano Jonico, attraversando a piedi la Basilicata, dal Tirreno allo Ionio, lungo il tragitto che dà il titolo al film. Il viaggio avrà per tutti un valore terapeutico. Basilicata coast to coast è una commedia corale, picaresca e canterina, malinconica e stralunata, che tra gag esilaranti, sagaci dialoghi e amare constatazioni di vita, prende quota per crescere ininterrottamente fino all’epilogo a sorpresa.
GLOBI D’ORO 2010: Miglior Film Plot Nicola, Salvatore, Rocco, and Franco are members of a band when they were young but now each of them are living on different jobs as math teacher, actor etc. With passion for music, they decide to attend together a music festival held in Southern Italy for the first time in 10 years. For this purpose, they plan to traverse the Basilicata area on foot, and an exciting adventure filled with unexpected accidents and encounters unfolds after a female reporter joins them. We find the arid but uncontaminated landscapes of Basilicata, pulsing with fierce dignity, proud of its literary past, rich in colours, wild nature and sound humanity. Four men will travel around from one sea to another, to take part in a local music competition, but the end of this odd journey by feet is not as important as the journey itself, through which they will evolve and learn much about themselves and the meaning of their lives. A tired and listless journalist, interpreted by the always talented Giovanni Mezzogiorno, will accompany them, and discover some passion for something in her life. It’s a plain movie, whose slow rhythm is given by the sound of the bass, and relieved by odd songs, each one a moment of revelation for each character. It’s a feel-good movie, leaving the viewer with a sense of simplicity, of the need and the necessity to leave, in order to come back, but with a new consciousness and a new feeling for life. A movie to be praised, within Italian cinematography, as it can still deliver small, but good and committed products, that could appeal the wide public, leaving an intelligent message, without being too intellectual.
GLOBI D’ORO 2010: Best First Feature Film
Thanks to Paco Cinematografica
