At the Turin Film Festival in which the 'years of lead' are central - just think of Monica Repetto's beautiful docu 1974 1979 OUR WOUNDS - Antonio Capuano's IL BUCO IN TESTA is also out of competition, a film inspired by a true story, that of Maria S. (Teresa Saponangelo) who lives in a town near the sea, in the province of Naples.
A woman without too many qualities, this Maria, a stray cat full of anger, without a steady job and with a practically mute and disturbed mother.
Behind all these hardships, forty years earlier, the death of his father, deputy police sergeant in his early twenties, killed by a far left militant.
When all this happened she was not even born, but Maria lived for years in a house where in every room there was a photo of this very beautiful boy who, only growing up, will she discover to be the father.
One day in Maria's messy life, clumsily courted by Fabio (Francesco Di Leva), a teacher of a school where she works for free, a little truth enters.
That is, he learns that his father's murderer has a name: Guido Mandelli (Tommaso Ragno).
Now the man has served his sentence and lives in an apartment in Milan.
Finally an enemy to hate, thinks Maria who, without thinking about it, cuts herself and dyes her hair red, takes her father's gun and runs to meet the man who is the cause of all her ills.
"I heard the story of this woman on the radio - says Capuano to ANSA - and I wanted to know her. She told the death of her father, Deputy Brigadier of Public Security Antonio Custra of 25 with simplicity, in a serene and calm way. The media of course - continues the director - then rightly asked why this girl, after 30 years from that story, had wanted to meet her father's killer. 'I wanted to look him in the eyes', she said.' Maybe I would be able to free myself from hatred that has been blocking me since I was born. I have a hole in my head, from which I still can't get out '".
And Capuano again: "I was glued to the radio, as always happens, when I feel a short circuit around me. I immediately thought that that emotion, that story, I had to transfer it, move it forward. The life of that 'stillborn' girl like she said about herself, she had to be made known, relived ".
Terrorism?
"It is something that I lived fully, I sympathized with extreme left groups - says the director of Mario's War - but then when they started killing people I was no longer there: you don't change the world by killing. Of course. if I think of today's world I am ashamed, I feel defeat. What world have we ever left to young people who in the end can not help but get lost in the spiral between drugs and more? ".
Next film for Capuano?
"I have many projects, but I would love to do Sophocles' Oedipus the King".