"I'm a romantic, even if I don't have the face, and I'm also very idealistic and loyal. So I found it very nice to do this character through the eyes of a director who was able to look at Alexander's frailties without ever judging". This is how Pierfrancesco Favino talks about his role in PROMISES, a film by Amanda Sthers inspired by the novel of the same name by the same director, passed today at the Rome Film Festival and which will be distributed in Italy by Vision Distribution from 18 November.
And that it is a truly romantic story is confirmed by Sthers herself, a French director of Tunisian origin: "I wrote eleven novels, but seven years ago I had a strong desire to make a truly romantic story and PROMISES came out, I wouldn't have but never imagined it would become a film ".
Shot in English, between London and Italy, and rich in cultural references, from Calvino to Proust, PROMISES really speaks of romantic love, that of Alexander (Favino), a man with a difficult past and who lives as a book researcher, for Laura ( Kelly Reilly, 44-year-old British actress daughter of Costner in the YELLOSTONE series) a refined art dealer about to get married. Although Alexander is happy with his wife and their little girl, between him and Laura is immediately chemistry.
Both understand at first glance that they will not have a chance, but their destiny in the years to come will be only to touch each other.
They will never be able to go further despite the desire.
Although perhaps it is true, as we read in the synopsis, that "a love that has never lived is a love that can never die".
In the cast of the film, an Indiana Production, Vision Distribution, Barbary Films and Iwaca production in collaboration with SKY and Amazon Prime video also: Jean Reno, Cara Theobold, Kris Marshall, Deepak Verma, Leon Hesby, Ginnie Watson.
"In reality I don't have the tendency to procrastinate when I like a woman - underlines Favino - but it's true that we don't always meet at the right time. There are situations in which the time is always wrong and then one wonders: who knows if I had taken another path what would have happened? ".
