Summer of Giacomo

L'estate di Giacomo

Italy, Belgium, France

2011

78 Min

Color

Italian

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Paolo Benzi, Alessandro Comodin, Marie Géhin, Réjane Michel, Valérianne Boué

CAST Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo

ED João Nicolau, Alessandro Comodin

SOUND Julien Courroye, Florian Namias

Locarno (Cinema of the Present): Golden Leopard, Rotterdam (Bright Future), BAFICI (Adolescencias)

Synopsis

Summer in the north Italian countryside. Giacomo, a deaf teenager of 19, goes to the river with his best friend Stefania for a picnic. Straying from their usual route, they end up getting lost and arrive at a place that is like a little paradise where they are free to be themselves. Over an afternoon, their childhood games take on sensual overtones until they realize that what is happening is no more than the bittersweet memory of an era that is already long lost in the past. –Locarno Film Festival

Director

Alessandro Comodin

Born in 1982 in a small village in Friuli, Italy, Alessandro Comodin discovered film through the dialect poetry of Pasolini. After studying humanities in Bologna, he went to Paris to study film, and subsequently at INSAS in Brussels. In 2009, he completed his graduation film, Jagdfieber, a documentary about hunting. L’estate di Giacomo (2011) is his first feature film. –Locarno Film Festival