ITALY
2012, 97 MIN
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Script Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano, Bernardo Bertolucci
Camera Fabio Cianchetti
Design Jean Rabasse
Music Franco Piersanti
Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno, Pippo Delbono
Producers Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli
Production Fiction Film, Wildside, Medusa Film
The 14-year-old recluse Lorenzo shuns other boys, can’t communicate properly with his parents. When all the classmates go on an excursion to the mountains, he runs away and locks himself up in the basement of his house to enjoy solitude. Lorenzo was surprised to find a very unusual girl in his house, who is mysteriously related to the boy and his family.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
One of the leading directors of Italian cinema, playwright and poet. Born in 1941 in Parma. Studied at the Rome University. Participant in and winner of prominent international film festival, winner of numerous Oscars. His filmography includes “The Conformist” (1970, Oscar nomination, 2 awards of the Berlin IFF), “Last Tango in Paris” (1972, 2 Oscar nominations), “The Last Emperor” (1987, 9 Oscars and some 40 other awards), “The Sheltering Sky” (1990), “Little Buddha” (1993), “Stealing Beauty” (1996), “Besieged” (1998), “The Dreamers” (2003), etc.