Venice: Luchetti, family portrait in hell

(ANSA) - ROME, 02 SEP - The painful consequences of the end of a love, the devastation it leaves when the obstinacy to manage together, to remain a family anyway, produces torment, hypocrisy, toxicity, are the Laces of the film by DanieleLuchetti, taken from the 'homonymous novel by Domenico Starnone (Einaudi), which opens this evening Venezia 77 and exceptionally is projected simultaneously with the Sala Grande of the Palazzo delcinema in 100 screens, while the official release for the production Beppe Caschetto-Rai Cinema is on 1 October with 01 An out-of-competition film, an Italian festival opening after 11 years, a family portrait in hell.

    The story begins in the early 1980s, Aldo (Luigi LoCascio) a radio host at Rai, with intellectual ambitions, commutes to Rome while at home in Naples there is Vanda (Alba Rohrwacher, absent for an unexpected event at the Lido) teacher precarious and two children to raise Sandro and Anna.

   When Aldo falls in love with a colleague, Lidia (Linda Caridi), his wife throws him away thinking of making him reflect on what he is doing to their family, instead Aldo goes away seriously and at that moment everything falls, between blackmail, suicide attempts, frightened children , hearings.

Vanda does everything to restore him, including scenes.

He, divided in half, returns but the coccirestano potsherds and when the couple 30 years later is still together (Silvio Orlando and Laura Morante) we understand that silence has become their language, while the children have grown up (Adriano Giannini and Giovanna Mezzogiorno) in sentimental precariousness and resentment.

The family is at the center of Lacci, our archetype par excellence, "the one that represents us as Italians and helps us to tell ourselves. This time - says Luchetti - I was interested in dealing with the bonds between people, the damage that love does when it goes away. and what happens when we stay together out of masochism, out of loyalty, out of sadism, out of habit ".

    Luigi Lo Cascio, for once in a negative role, of his Aldo "who makes a series of disasters" says he is "cynical, selfish, expects everyone to understand his desire for freedom".

(HANDLE).