The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.
Direction
Piccioni turns his own process into elegy.
Acting
Timi and Mascino's unguarded rehearsal chemistry.
Director
Giuseppe Piccioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Italy's brief reopening window in summer 2020, the film captures a specific national mood of cautious optimism that proved devastatingly premature.
Piccioni deliberately kept his crew minimal — often just himself with a camera — to preserve the raw intimacy of actors at their most vulnerable.
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