"Filming means watching death at work", Jean Cocteau once said. The opening scene plays with this old cinema issue in a bizarrely comic manner: Matteo and fat Renzo are driving home from a party, singing and still somewhat drunk. While searching for the last joint, there is a scuffle behind the steering wheel and the car spins off the road and somersaults. Concussed, Matteo climbs from the car. His friend does not move. The next car to pass by in this lonely mountainous dawn landscape stops and some figures in costumes get out: a grim reaper, an angel and a pink panther. Looking like they have come off the set of a Fellini film, they too have come from the party and are friends of the lads. " He's dead", Matteo utters, terrified, to the panther, who is really the student, Juliette. But then Fatso, who had just been asleep, wakes up again. Later we learn that Matteo's mother, whose husband has left her, is on her death bed, and that Juliette is expecting a child from Andrea. He doesn't want her to have it, for fear of jeopardising his career. Is it easy to be young? This tense, atmospheric debut film by the Mazzieri brothers is an intelligent discourse on freedom and responsibility. It confronts these young people on the verge of adulthood with the difficulties of setting up their own existence, leaving the family nest and assuming the responsibility for their own life and a new life.
YOUTHS
(GIOVANI)
2003
© SET22
Drama
by Luca and Marco Mazzieri
Synopsis
Cast
Credits
Screenplay
Photography
Editing
Music
Art Director
Costumes
Luca and Marco Mazzieri
Roberto Barbierato
Carlo Fontana
Martino Traversa
Francesca Magnani - Federico Cambiati
Debora Bastianelli - Donatella Cianchetti
Available Versions
Original Italian version with English / French subtitles
Festivals and Awards
90 min - 35mm - 1:1.66 - Dolby Stereo SR
Technical Data
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Review
Davide Pasti
Gallianne Palayret
Marisa Mantovani
and the participation of Lina Sastri
Davide Zaccaro