The best of the evils, work before Violetta Rovettonote on YouTube as Violetta Rocksafter being presented as a special event of the 34th Noir in Festival last December in Milan, he released in Italian theaters on March 6th.
The film – scripted by Violetta Rovetto (his subject also) together with Josella di Porto And Tommaso Santi and made with the support of the Calabria Film Commission – is freely taken from the miniseries The best of the evils – the tin manwritten by the same Rushintense graphic novel published in 2019 by Shockdom which brought a work different from the others to the Italian comic book landscape and not at all obvious, with issues also characterized by the strong social impact.
The story is set at the end of the 90s and features five boys struggling with the disappearance of a dog; In the background, looming, a chemical industry, the Termarantosource of sustenance of the majority of the population and full of hidden truths. His toxic fumes in addition to having taken something to the boys something also seem to have “given” them something in return. An adventure between yellow and fantastic where the mysterious events that occur around the boys and the town will lead them to clash with “the best of evils”.
The protagonist of the four weeks of shooting was in particular the province of Cosenzastarting from the coastal strip with the municipalities of San lucido And Torremezzo di Falconaraa small tourist vocation overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, the only fraction of the Municipality of Falconara Albanese. The filming then, always within the same province, moved to the well -known mountain tourist resort of Camigliatello Silanorenowned village of Sila big It is one of the pearls of the hinterland of the region. There Calabria region Finally, it was still the set of the film a Cosenzaalso known as the city of Bruziof ancient origins in which history, traditions and modernity merge perfectly.
“In this story – underlines the director and screenwriter Violetta Rovetto – I would like to tell a form of redemption and the ability to adapt to an adverse fate. The redemption of those who come into the world in a context on which they have no control and towards which it is helpless. A context in which you lose the affections in an early age and pay a diversity on your skin that has not been a choice. The issues addressed in The best of evils They are current because they tell a context that we live and face the questions that we all ask ourselves. “
The best of evils It is a work that aims to have an subtext capable of arousing questions about the future, nature, conflicts, diversity, loss and sacrifice and which, as the same reiterates Rush“Talk to a very young audience, but with several levels of reading, inserting it in a 90s context, also enjoyable by a more adult audience”.
In the cast of the film, next to well -known and established actors such as Massimo Wertmüller, Pietro Ragusa And Annalisa Insardàa group of young promises of the Italian film scene including Giuseppe Palone (Summer Limited Edition), Andrea Arru (The boy with pink trousers, Diabolik, Glassboy, 9 caliber, Di4ri), Riccardo Antonaci (Big trouble at the Aquiline: Kung Fu legend), Giorgia Piancatelli, Niccolò bizzoco, Matteo Ferrara.
Behind the camera, to cover almost all the technical and artistic roles, a predominantly female team that will thus be able to count, in addition to the director, on the screenwriter Josella Portothe photograph of Marina Kissopoulosthe assembly of Natascia di Vitothe costumes of Sabrina Beretta In collaboration with Fabrizia Migliarottithe music of Tecla Zorzi.