Rust

It’s a hot summer in the 1970s, in the North italian suburbs of a town inhabited by immigrants from the south and the northeast. Here a gang spends its time playing games and clashing with other small gangs. That summer, a new physician arrives in the neighbourhood: the elegant and aristocratic Dr. Boldrini, who inspires awe from everyone. Three decades later, three adults are coming to grips with the daily reality of their lives. The echoes from that violent summer will inexorably invade their apparently normalised lives. “One of the themes of the film is something that I found extremely fascinating; what traces does a dramatic experience leave in someone? How do you survive an encounter with evil? How does the relationship with the world around us change, one which is indifferent to the war that so far only I know to have fought?” (Daniele Gaglianone) –Venice Days