(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 21 - A year ago he made his debut in Alicenella città Buio by Emanuela Rossi on two sisters who, in an apparently post-apocalyptic reality, are kept segregated at home by their father.
This year, always in the competition comes Shadows by Carlo blackboard, where a mother holds two sisters prisoner.
However, the gaze and the setting changes, with the dynamics of paranoia, fear, isolation, which sound more current than ever, given that the filmmakers of the film finished shooting a few months before the coronavirus emergency, and the film arrives in full second wave of the pandemic .
Lavagna, who had already pointed out with his debut feature 'Arianna', joins inShadows, which will be in theaters with an event release from 16 to 18 November with Vision Distribution, defines the film as "an unthriller of formation".
An engaging and unsettling emotional journey strengthened by the cast of the three protagonists, Saskia Reeves (Nymphomaniac, Luther) for her mother, and for the two teenage protagonists, Mia Threapleton (daughter of Kate Winslet, ed) and Lola Petticrew.
In the story, Alma (Threapleton) Alex (Petticrew) are two teenage sisters who live in hiding in an old abandoned hotel in the woods (shot in Ireland), with their Mother, a strict woman who protects them from invisible dangers and tries to teach them to to survive.
The two girls bear less and less the limits of the enclave in which their mother forces them to stay.
The desire to cross that river, which also physically separates it from the rest of the world, becomes stronger and stronger.
"In the film there are themes and situations that would have seemed totally imaginative until a year ago, but which are now part of our normality - explains Carlo Lavagna - A story that seemed dystopian has now become almost neorealist".
The choice of the protagonists came through a series of auditions: "Mia Threapleton initially thought of playing Alex, but not finding the interpreter for Alma on the casting day, we called her back while she was already on her way to the airport. read the scene and took our breath away… talent belongs to the family ".
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