I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

Preferisco il rumore del mare

Italy, France

2000

84 Min

Color

1.85:1

Italian

Subtitled in English

Audio in Italian

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Donatella Botti, Roberto Cicutto, Luigi Musini, Gilles-Marie Tiné

SCR Mimmo Calopresti, Francesco Bruni, Heidrun Schleef

CAST Silvio Orlando, Michele Raso, Paolo Cirio, Fabrizia Sacchi, Mimmo Calopresti, Andrea Occhipinti

SOUND Remo Ugolinelli

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Karlovy Vary (Variety Critics' Choice)

Synopsis

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two teenagers who reach that particular stage in life in which a young person starts to yearn for independence. Rosario, who is originally from the very south of Italy, is helped by Luigi and thanks to him he will go and live in the north of Italy. Luigi is from the south too but has a good job in Turin. He wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. –cineuropa.org

Director

Mimmo Calopresti

Mimmo Calopresti (born 1955 in Polistena, Calabria) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He has directed 16 films since 1987. His film The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia

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Duino

26Jul10

I caught half this film on television, years ago, quite by chance. I was arrested by its taciturnity, by its luminosity, by the delicacy and the brittleness of the connections between the characters. It has a depth of connection to place, and the silent struggle of North and South, that links it to so many great Italian films.