QUI NON � IL PARADISO
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Italy
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 102 min.
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THIS IS NOT PARADISE / CE N'EST PAS LE PARADIS
Renato Sapienza drives an armoured truck for the postal service, every day collecting valuables from the regional branches and transporting them to the main post office. He makes his rounds accompanied by his good friend Walter Taranto and an escort of two police cars. But one day, when the money bags are opened, instead of bank notes they find a bundle of comic strips. Eight billion lire have disappeared. We are in Turin and Inspector Lucidi, an honest, hard-working cop, is determined to find the guilty party. All clues point to Sapienza, who has disappeared into thin air. We flashback into the memories of the main protagonists: Renato Sapienza, luckless, a bit of a dreamer, he sees himself as a vagabond poet; Claudia Treves, a young waitress who falls in love with him; Walter Taranto, Sapienza's best friend, who would never say no to him, even at the risk of going to jail. The plan is set. Nothing can derail it... Now the eight billion lire have vanished and Sapienza along with them. But the truth is sometimes not what we think it is, and reality not what we dream.
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Script: Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, Leonardo Fasoli.
Phot.: Pietro Sciortino.
Ed.: Marco Spoletini.
Mus.: Ezio Bosso.
Cast: Fabrizio Gifuni, Erika Bernardi, Valerio Binasco, Antonio Catania, Adriano Pappalardo, Riccardo Zinna, Ugo Conti.
Sales: Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Cecchi Gori Group, via Valadier 42, Rome (Italie), t�l.: (39-06) 3247 22 97, fax: (39-06) 3247 22 96.
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Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Born in Turin, Italy in 1964, Gianluca Maria Tavarelli has written and directed commercials, documentaries and films of all length, both for theatrical release and for television. His filmography includes: Forme della realt� (1985), Cercando Erato (1986), Non oltre mezzanotte (1987), Il ferro contro il viso (1988), Dimmi qualcosa di te (1989), Nubi (1992), PORTAME VIA (1994) and AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (1999), which is being shown in the Focus on Italian Cinema section of this year's Montreal Wold Film Festival. |
