Below is a press release released by AncheCinema:
AncheCinema, with the collaboration of the Sudestival, presents screenings of the film CASTELROTTO by Damiano Giacomelli, with Giorgio Colangeli, candidate for the David di Donatello as best supporting actor for “C’è Ancora Tomorrow” by Paola Cortellesi.
The film will be screened as part of the special presentation event which will take place on Thursday 2 May at 8.30 pm at the AncheCinema Theater in Bari and which will include the presence of the director Damiano Giacomelli and the composer of the soundtrack Peppe Leonewho will perform before the screening of the film and who will participate in the subsequent debate.
Moderate the critic Anton Giulio Mancino (University of Macerata).
Castelrotto is a revenge movie about village fake news, led by a stubborn provincial Don Quixote. A mysterious crime shakes the life of Castelrotto, a small Apennine village that has always been out of the news… and out of history. Ottone, a former local reporter and retired primary school teacher, takes advantage of the episode to take back his pen and take revenge for an old wrong suffered. His plan is clear: to manipulate the story of the new crime to accuse the men who ruined his life.
DIRECTOR’S NOTES edited by Damiano Giacomelli
Castelrotto was born from an interest in the local news of my territory, the Macerata hinterland, in the years immediately preceding the 2016 earthquake, the period in which even on a local scale the printed paper definitively gave way to online publications.
As I collected this material I began to experience it through a filter, a voice that then became the center of the film. Thus was born Ottone, a fallen master who pursues his blind personal revenge and in doing so reclaims a lost vitality. Like an accordion, his journey opens and closes continuously, between visionary epiphanies and vindictive resentments, taking him (and, I hope, taking us) beyond trend topic dualisms, into an apparent contradiction which seems to me to also be one of his great contribution of reality. The interpretation of Giorgio Colangeli was decisive, the human and professional architrave on which the making of the film was based.
Through Ottone’s window, the square of Castelrotto becomes almost a domestic courtyard, creating a natural continuity between public and private that those who live in the towns know well.
Thus the film opens up to a large fresco of characters, which during the casting phase we entrusted to a mixed group of professional actors and local inhabitants. For a film of this production size, I was lucky enough to be able to collaborate with a group of extraordinary actors, whom I thank for their convinced participation.
In constructing the staging of the film I favored a naturalistic approach, which guided me from the choice of locations to the shot plan and the direction of the actors.
One of the advantages of writing, directing and producing a film is that you have no illusions about the playing field on which you will make it. I knew that on Castelrotto I would have a certain measure of production and I tried to integrate it into my idea of staging from the beginning.
Once I acknowledged this, there remained a great freedom and the pleasure of making cinema, which made the process one of the most exciting experiences of my life, shared with a crew of playmates before being excellent professionals.
EVENT INFO AND SCREENINGS:
Thursday 2 May 2024 | 8.30pm
Theater AlsoCinema
Corso Italia 112 BARI
The film will also be screened at the AncheCinema Theater in Bari on the following days and times:
Monday 6 May | 6.00 pm
Monday 13 May | 4.30pm
Wednesday 15 May | 1.30pm
Tickets here: bit.ly/CASTELROTTO
Tickets also available at the AncheCinema Theater box office
