Rai Uno’s prime time will see Calabria protagonist. The film will be broadcast tomorrow “Everything is fine” of the necklace «As long as it ends well “directed by Giorgio Romano and turned entirely between Reggio Calabria and Pentedattilo. Thanks to the constant commitment of the Calabria Film Commission Foundationchaired by Anton Giulio Grande once again the lights of the television limelight will light on our land to show their attractive and immense beauty.
Among the panoramas overlooking the most beautiful kilometer in Italy, the wonderful villa Zerbi and the mysterious and fascinating ghost village of Pentenadattilo, Romano directs a very particular story.
It is the title that plans the script written by Cristiana Farina and Maurizio Careddu. Sbrigative, optimistic, decisive, essential, that interlocutory phrase that is “all in place” becomes a thousand lives, a thousand moods, a thousand emotions, a thousand fears. He becomes the ideal hiding place of the two main protagonists, Francesco (Michele Di Mauro) and Sasà (Michele Eburnea), of their difficult existence, of their difficult relationship with themselves and with others. Francesco is a sixty year old, university professor, he has lived for many years with his blindness and pain for his wife’s loss. Two things that made it asocial and grumpy, and have frustrated culture and intelligence of it. The only daughter, Maria, is far away, studies in Oxford, and she only worries that the university path continues well. Barbagli of humanity only peek with Angela (Susy Del Giudice), the door of the palace that takes care of keeping the apartment clean and that every evening reads some pages of the classics. Then there is Sasà, between the twenty and thirty, on the run from the father who is always drunk and handle, zonzo for family homes and for Italy, for beds of ladies who appreciate their “qualities”, and to avoid finding himself and his center of permanent gravity. In such a context, the Focaie stones begin to look for, at least them, and try to make the spark of change slip, which illuminates the dark existence.
For the most classic of fortuitous cases, Sasà sneaks into Francesco’s wide apartment, and elects him at his domicile. Of course, without the teacher noticing anything, or at least it would seem. The presence of Sasà is silent, from the striking steps to the first aid that he begins to give to his guest when he decides to fire Angela. Mutual affection comes out slowly, but inexorable. Between the folds of the characters of Francesco and Sasà. And an intense story of friendship blossoms, between two totally different generations, between two characters who are on the other hand, each other. In some moments, then, this improbable pair of roommates turns into an added value that (almost) does not expect. Professor Misantropo and the blind and the bland of road that can be scapeman in many cases also let Italian “pieces” arise, perfect for giving smiles. On the scene, Anna (Giulia Fazzini) also burst the girl for whom Sasà has a weak and who works as Floreal designer in the Morgana nursery of Sante (Antonio Gerardi). We talked about “all right” with the director Giorgio Romano.
Are the silent complicity between Francesco and Sasà and their coexistence are a bit like a series of psychoanalytic sessions to regain confidence in others and in themselves?
«Yes, let’s say that this friendship and this coexistence are a sort of psychoanalysis, because we know that initially our protagonist, Francesco, does not know about the presence of Sasà. So, Sasà is first an observer, a boy who tries to learn, to understand how a blind person can move with incredible dexterity at home. And to relate to the outside. Sasà is a street boy, looking at a blind person who moves in a house and a city like Reggio Calabria, as if nothing had happened, thanks to his memory, is something that intrigues him. From that moment on, this curiosity will lead him to discover also an emotion “.
Each of the characters of “all right” chases, more or less consciously, a goal. Fueled by the hope of reaching it. Perhaps the most difficult task has Francesco …
«Our professor has no dreams. And if he had not known Sasà he would have continued his life full of self -criticism and criticism of the world. Let’s say he doesn’t have a real goal. Francesco is a professor, not at all sociable, a character who has become used to living alone, in his spaces, in which he does not let anyone in, Angela. Before, he saw, now he no longer sees, now he thinks he no longer exists anything. So he is satisfied with his books, of history, because it is what he feeds on. He is an egoist, a person who simply takes care of his culture, of his soul. Sasà is a boy who lives on expedients, of what the way gives him, and his goal is manifested during the story, when he slowly begins to understand what he has to take care of himself: of himself and his emotions. Since Sasà sneaks into Francesco’s house, he begins for both a path that will lead them to get to know each other and finally recognize himself in what is further away from them: the ability to love, who goes hand in hand with knowing how to listen ».
The charm of Reggio Calabria and Villa Zerbi, the magical village of Pentendattilo … How much did the locations enter the heart of the plot?
“They are fundamental. In addition to recreating an atmosphere, they also tell us an emotion. Reggio Calabria managed to give us and be not only the location but a protagonist of the story. We chose Pentendattilo to recreate an atmosphere of an obviously abandoned, historic village, who managed to give us beautiful, emotional and solar settings, which marry very well with a story like ours. Reggio Calabria and Pentedattilo have been very important for this story because they represent the moods of the characters in those scenes ».
