As part of a event dedicated to women, a look at the male arrives, which speaks of abandonment, social support and friendship. “Goodbye sadness” by Catania Giovanni Virgil, presented Saturday out of competition at the Taormina Film Festivalin the presence of the director and interpreters – The Palermo actors Alessio Vassallo and Selene Caramazza, protagonists with the Messina Nino Frassicaof which in the evening a video message was projected – is configured as a dramedy that starting from a finished love, goes beyond the couple relationship, to put the comparison with themselves and with the other in the foreground, useful to give meaning to the chiaroscuro of one’s interiority.
Shot in Acireale with a troupe for the majority of Sicilianthe story is that of Aldo (Vassallo), forty -year -old, who is abandoned without any explanation by his partner (behavior that is called “ghosting”) after 15 years of relationship. It seems not to have the strength to start again, when the support of the dear friend Sonia (Caramazza) and the psychotherapist Carlo (Frassica) will prove to be fundamental.
“The protagonists of the story are not afraid to ask for help in a historical moment in which we no longer talk to us – says the director during the meeting with the press – because we are closed in the relationship with our mobile phones. In fact, “goodbye sadness”, while speaking to everyone with simplicity, is aimed above all at young people who are the major consumers of new technologies “.
«All three characters fill together a need for help and protection – underlines Caramazza – Sonia in particular is a free, independent woman, apparently very naif, with her fragility and a great need to find courage and strength; In fact, it will make a very important revelation in the final jokes of the film ». “After being left, Aldo begins to have the first aggression signs – says Vassallo – even going to go under the house of the former partner. This film – he continues – deals with the delicate theme of suffering and anger, with that irony that is often a mirror in which we ourselves can see what we are “. Compared to gender -based violence, he adds: «Today men should network each other. We are led to think that violence is outside us, instead it can belong to anyone. I could potentially be a violent, but if I realize it I can create the useful tools to defend myself. In this women are light years ahead of us ».
Written by Virgil with Luca Arcidiacono and Manuela Gurgone, the film takes the title from the songwriter of the songwriter Cosenza Brunori Sas. Music strongly enters history and characterizes the most important moments. “I guess the films with music – says the director – and being the theme of history based on the possibility of letting the sadness go away, Brunori is the story of the film”.
In the cast also the Catania actress Gabriella Saitta. In the room from June 19 with RS Productions and Mirari Vos, “goodbye sadness” is produced by movie movieside, with the contribution of the Mic – Directorate General cinema and audiovisual and the support of Sicily Film Commission.