QUOTE 16
Film Color 35 mm. Duration 85 '
Written and directed by
Roberto Aguerre Ravizza
Acting Gabriele Lavia and Leopoldo Trieste, together in this picture,
whose first shooting started in the late 93 'and early 94'.
Gabriele Lavia is the main character of the recent shooting, Leopoldo Trieste the main character of the later shooting. Two artists, together with the other equally valuable actors, playing a non-traditional drama based on dream-like echoes of emotions and stories.
The richness and variety of contents, as well as the deep insight of the characters acting in the past and present, offer a wide range of possible and articulated individual readings. A work that is open to multiple interpretations suggesting and inviting the public to play an active role in the story and become co-authors.
Dialogues among the characters, often intermingled in a hinted time sequence, offer suggestions for reflection on the events describing an inner autobiography guided by the facts which determined the story and therefore the screen play of the film.
This movie has also a clear anti Berlusconian criticism: the title itself, alludes to the political period starting sixteen years ago, coinciding with the beginning of the production which was suspended due to force majeure; details are gradually revealed in the film.
The film, censured in Italy, includes, in its initial part, an interview to Giovanni Sartori offering a punctual synthesis of the BerlusconiÂ’s period. Such an authoritative presence represents one of the keys to viewing the movie which is set in Uruguay and Italy, and develops through a series nightmares, coming up from the prisons of Montevideo and reappearing in Rome - and the dreams of Italian immigrants in a continuous search for a better world, in the past and present.