THE FILM
sisters Mai originates from Marco Bellocchio the direction of the courses to make films Bobbio, a city in the province of Piacenza where the director was born and where in 1965 he turned the work of his dazzling debut, Fists in the Pocket .
Divided into six episodes, the film tells the story of the family Mai, focusing on the relationship between Sarah, a young actress in search of success, his daughter Elena, the first child and then a teenager, his brother George and two aunts. In the background, the family home of Bobbio, an evocative space in cui finiscono per intrecciarsi i destini di tutti.
Accolto con entusiasmo all’ultima Mostra di Venezia, l’ultimo film di Marco Bellocchio è unico nel suo genere: girato nell’arco di dieci anni in completa libertà creativa, fortemente autobiografico, Sorelle Mai è il ritratto appassionante e ironico di una famiglia, delle sue gioie semplici e dei suoi drammi nascosti, supportato da un cast di rara sensibilità.
SINOSSI
Sara Mai (Donatella Finocchiaro) is an actress and lives in Milan, trying to assert itself, while his daughter, little Elena (Elena Bellocchio), spends most of time at the family home at Bobbio, where he is cared for by two elderly aunts (sisters Letizia and Maria Luisa Bellocchio). A Bobbio back often also the brother of Sarah, George (Pier Giorgio Bellocchio), more and more uneasy and uncertain about their future.
George and the two aunts are now Elena's family, until one day, after having obtained a major portion, Sara decides to take his daughter with him to Milan, and trasferrirsi in a bigger house. To do this, go back to Bobbio to formalize the sale of part of the house, finding an ally in George, despite the difficult relations between the two occurred in the past. The years go by, Elena grows and she back to live with her aunts, who are also home to a young high school teacher (Alba Rohrwacher) that, overwhelmed by his anguish of love, during the final scrutiny, for "absence" risks to reject a student. Even George returns to Bobbio, fleeing from debt and chased by two shady characters: this time will be his sister to help him.
The whole family will finally meet on the shore of Trebbia to attend a performance designed by his friend John (Gianni Schicchi Gabrieli), who, dressed in tails, he plunges into waters of the ancient river in the country where all people are born and where they spent their early youth ...
filmmaking
sisters Mai was carried out with the students of six editions of Film Making Workshop, draft training film that is held every summer at Bobbio for fifteen days under the direction of Marco Bellocchio. Since its inception in 1997, the laboratory was also supported by a film show opened to the public, starting in 2005, preso il nome di Bobbio Film Festival, durante il quale viene assegnato “Il Gobbo d’Oro”, con riferimento al medievale Ponte Gobbo, simbolo della città.
DICHIARAZIONI DI MARCO BELLOCCHIO
Ho accettato l’idea di tenere il laboratorio di regia Fare Cinema, a Bobbio, mettendo dentro all’esperienza qualcosa di personale che mi consentisse un atteggiamento non teorico ma di partecipazione and personal enjoyment. You see it in the movie a little girl, my daughter grow from four to fourteen. And the other son, twenty years older, still in disguise, as if chased by several ghosts ... In my story there was the youth rebellion and the courage of the posting, which has left me in regret or guilt, if not the inevitable confrontation between my fate and that of my sisters who instead remained in country.
Mai (Mai Sisters ") is a fancy name, but also alludes to the trap for the two sisters was the family. Without had the opportunity to live independently (in the sense that they have always been discouraged from it), always remained in the house as some young ladies of the nineteenth century, in a world Gozzano or grazing, or Chekhov. I'm younger than that I do not have responsibility for their objective of this "prison", but also feel a certain sadness in their lives comfortable disclaimers. And much love. Mai Sisters is dedicated to them.
The film is about a girl's growth and transformation of the environment around her. Having traveled over ten years and without any idea of \u200b\u200bcollecting gli episodi in un film, abbiamo lavorato in maniera libera, spontanea. Gli episodi nascevano uno dall’altro, da un anno all’altro. È il tempo il vero protagonista del film, ciò che ne regge l’intero senso, al di là di ogni valutazione estetica che gli si può dare. Che si conclude definitivamente nel tempo presente.
Ho inserito dei piccoli frammenti de I pugni in tasca non per una citazione intellettualistica, ma perché essendo gli stessi luoghi, gli stessi ambienti, mi piaceva inabissare improvvisamente e rapidamente la storia di Sorelle Mai in un’altra storia lontanissima nel tempo. Vissuta and represented the first fifty years. The house of my first film since then has not changed much. But, at least for me, no longer haunted.
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