“The idea of My Life has come to me by observing, in recent years, the relationship that my mother, sick of Parkinson, has developed with a Salento lady who has taken care of her. She passed from an initial feeling of frustration and anger for her state of health, to one of almost maternal tenderness towards this simple, intelligent and very good woman” the words of Edoardo Winspeare are the best way to discover her new film Vita Mia, released on April 9 after the presentation at the Turin Festival.
The film is distributed Draka Distribution, a production Stemal Entertainment and Saietta Film with Rai Cinema, produced by Donatella Palermo and Gustavo Caputo with the contribution of MIC – DG Cinema and Audiovisual, Puglia Region, Apulia Foundation Film Commission and Puglia Promotion, with the participation of Banca Popolare Pugliese SCPA. A story that has its roots in Salento but that looks to Europe, between past and present. Starring two women: Didi, a noble transilvana Apulian, and Vita, a woman of peasant origin, are as far away as you can imagine, but from their meeting will be born a friendship capable of hunting the ghosts of the past.
Vita Mia, la sinossi ufficiale
Didi, an elderly duchessa transilvana transplanted in a country in Salento, lives proudly a present marked by age and economic precariousness. When he is forced to hire a helper, he enters his house Vita, a Salento woman of popular origins and a decided character. At first it divides everything: habits, language, politics, the very idea of dignity. But in the routine of the cure the aristocratic rituals of Didi and the concreteness of Life stop being obstacles and become ground of exchange, respect and complicity.
The past, however, does not remain silent. Didi must return to Transylvania for the process of beatification of his father and, against the advice of his children, chooses to face the journey with Life. In the family home and among relatives remained still in time wounds related to war, Nazism, Shoah and the weight of surviving. In this confrontation between private memory and European history, the lucid and tenacious presence of Life helps Didi to give a sense to his ghosts and to open up to one last, unexpected serenity.
Il cast
In the cast Dominique Sanda, Celeste Casciaro, Ninni Bruschetta, Ignazio Oliva. We also find Karolina Porcari, Johanna Orsini, Francesca Ziggiotti, Dora Sztarenki, Josef Scholler, with the participation of Stefan Liechtenstein and Christian Liechtenstein.
Dettagli tecnici
Directed by Edoardo Winspeare Subject Edoardo Winspeare, Alessandro Valenti, Francesca Marciano Screenplay Edoardo Winspeare, Alessandro Valenti with the collaboration of Mariangela Barbanente
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