- Camilla is a seventeen year old who has the dream of becoming a dancer, despite her mother's concerns. One day in dance she meets Sara, an aspiring dancer like her, and her life will never be the same.
- Camilla is a seventeen year old who has the dream of becoming a dancer, despite her mother's concerns. One day in dance she meets Sara, an aspiring dancer like her, and her life will never be the same. Thanks to her she will learn the sense of complicity and sharing, bravado and first times, yet also envy, rivalry and frustration. Certain meetings have the power to radically transform the course of a lifetime and prove to be fatal, especially during that delicate phase which is rightly defined in the title as "the imperfect age": the first times, experiences, and conflicts where the feelings are exasperated to the point they could even lead to extreme consequences.—Valerio (Darkseal)
- L'Età Imperfetta / Imperfect Age (2017)
DIRECTOR'S NOTES We say that youth is the time for big fights, when everything is taken to the extreme: you hate, or you love, you're shy or extrovert, good, or bad and roles keep switching. But youth is also the time for big discoveries: you're more aware of your feelings, that gain new significance. Hate and spite are amongst those feelings too. This movie's theme is the discovery of imperfection, told through the eyes of seventeen year old Camilla. She is the focus of her own story, a journey that will lead to the discovery of her dark side. Camilla is omnipresent: everything is filtered through her eyes and thoughts. The camera constantly follows her, almost stalking her until identifying with her point of view. The camera is handheld, to better convey a sense of reality (in an almost documentary style). This led to some rigorous choices: the constant - but not exclusive - use of intradiegetic music, the genuineness of locations and costumes and the selection of actors (in a few instances even non professional) who could get rid of any mannerism, to portray realistic characters. The story takes places in the outskirts of a medium size city, in Italy's rich North-East region, deprived of the usual cliches: fog, coldness, flaunted richness, in favor of sun, heat and a more realistic representation of social classes. The urban landscape - a suburbia made of warehouses, townhouses, small city parks, well-decorated stores, trendy clubs - becomes alive thanks to its inhabitants and characters. The other main "visual character" - consistent and compelling - is the ballet world, with its discipline, austerity, hardships and physical shape. The world of ballet (from Degas, to the Russian Ballet) navigates a cold imagery, "classical" indeed. This is the heart and soul of the interior shots, in contrast with the external heat. "Outside" it's a movie made of actions, words, faces and sensuality. "Inside" it's made of little movements, gazes, silence and innocence. The movie's strengths are its theme and its characters, but even more its plausibility, the truth that it unleashes. "Based on a true story" could be added in the beginning without raising any objection.
SYNOPSIS Meet Camilla, a teenager like many others and like many others somehow special. She lives in a quiet city in Northern Italy, she's a good student, she has a conflicting relationship with her sister Francesca and a dream that her mother doesn't understand, an Eastern woman, pragmatic and hard working, unlike her father, who's more "maternal". Camilla wants to be a ballet dancer and an upcoming audition to be accepted in a prestigious academy is a great opportunity. Meet Sara, another aspiring ballet dancer, who disrupts Camilla's life, like an unrelenting summer wind. Sara is one year older, she's charismatic and sexy; her father is wealthy and her mother is never there. Provoking affectionate moments, defining decisions, twists and turns will shift their relationship in an unexpected direction, changing Camilla's life forever.
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