Love on the irregular diagram between passion and temporal dimension, in «The invention of us two»second work by Corrado Ceron, at the Taormina Film Fest and first Italian title screened in the evening at the Teatro Antico. Adapted from the bestseller of the same name by Matteo Bussola (Einaudi), who collaborated on the screenplay, the film traces the love story between past and present between Milo (Lino Guanciale) and Nadia (Silvia D’Amico), married for 15 years who have lost the momentum of the past. A ploy by Milo (pretending to be someone else, he starts a secret correspondence with his wife that becomes increasingly intense) will highlight unexpected resources of the relationship.
“Our goal was to give our own version of the novel,” Ceron said at the press conference. “Additional challenges, that of making the book’s non-linear structure, exaggerated in the editing through temporal leaps, and translating the protagonists’ thoughts with close-ups and voiceovers.” But also, as Guanciale, who plays Milo, specified, the possibility of making a series of situations typical of everyone’s life credible: “For Milo I focused on the dimension of time passing, the great narrative arc of the book, and I was lucky enough to be able to build it at two extremes of its path, stretching it between the freshness of youth and the dullness of maturity, to structure a dialectic in a being that is simple but not too simple.”
To anticipate the screening of the film at the Teatro Antico, a great event between music and cinema, «Let’s Come to That Country», with Ficarra and Picone and the music of Carlo Crivelli for their films performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Vittorio Emanuele Theater of Messina conducted by Maestro Eliseo Castriagnanò.
The Messina location of Tusa is instead the set of «Tre regole infallibili» by Marco Gianfreda, the last film produced by the Neapolitan Gaetano Di Vaio, a courageous protagonist of independent cinema made in the South, who passed away on May 22nd, and whom the festival also wanted to pay homage to with his documentary «Largo Baracche».
A story that unfolds between family dynamics and adolescent education, posing a series of questions about the possibility of adults being role models for the younger ones. The protagonist is fourteen-year-old Bruno (Guglielmo Acquaro) who, discovering that Flavia (Erica Siracusa) reciprocates his love, is looking for a mentor who can teach him about love. It will be the hated Luca (Matteo Olivetti), the only one who has managed to make his mother Claudia (Cristiana Dell’Anna) fall in love. “This story is part of my journey on the theme of recognition, also addressed in my shorts – said the director – . Here I do it through the story of a boy looking for a guide. But he will discover that adults cannot be because they themselves do not know how to do things. In this sense the title of the film is ironic: there are no rules, much less infallible ones”.
During the day, the cinema lesson by the director from Palermo Costanza Quatriglio, the special screening of the fiction «L’Ora – Inchiostro contro piombo» in the presence of the director Piero Messina and the screenwriter Claudio Fava.