Pain sometimes digs into people underground and with unpredictable paths, but which have their own logic. And Silvio Soldini in his latest film, 3/19, tells it in an original way and with the courage of those who tackle difficult issues, such as that of death and feelings of guilt, with sobriety and without rhetoric. The protagonist of the film, in cinemas from 11 November with Vision Distribution, is a credible Kasia Smutniak in the role of Camilla, an affirmed financial lawyer of great character, but deeply lonely and sad. Separated and with a teenage daughter, Adele, whom she does not even consider too much, Camilla seems focused only on work and all this in a city where the difference between those who live on the upper floors like her and those who have nothing is abysmal.
One night, while walking through Milan, Camilla is hit, while crossing the street, by two immigrants on a scooter. One of the two boys falls and dies, while the other runs away. For the woman the first doubts begin. He doesn't know how responsible he is for what happened. In fact, the pain of the death of a stranger turns into his personal mourning. She first becomes friends with Bruno (Francesco Colella), director of the morgue where she goes to see the young man's body also to give him just a name, any identity. And for this he also comes into contact with the reality of assistance to the poor. In short, for her a journey into pain, in a finally found empathy: Camilla learns to know herself better, also dealing with a past that has never really been resolved.
"The theme of change is what fascinated me the most in my character - says Smutniak in zoom link (she is in isolation because she came into contact with a positive). - It is a very intimate story, this of Soldini, but one thing she is certain: Camilla has caused irreversible changes in me. And among the messages of 3/19 - she adds - there is certainly that of taking care of others ". "How did I prepare myself? I was influenced by the meetings with various successful lawyers I have known and I found a world very different from what I would have expected. Compared to them I have given up a few things. For me, family has always been at the center of my life and then the theme of mourning has always been very close to me ". Fromthe actress also made an appeal on what happens on the border between Poland and Belarus, which has become a new front for migrants, on which she has taken a position several times in the press and on social networks. "I do not feel like a white fly in saying certain things, I like to put my face on them. I am a mother of two children, a European citizen, Polish and Italian at the same time. It is what is happening at that border is a tragedy for the wrong laws that they block migrants and make them die ".What is happening at that border is a tragedy for the wrong laws that block migrants and make them die ".What is happening at that border is a tragedy for the wrong laws that block migrants and make them die ".
"Camilla lives in a world apart - says Soldini - where a different language is spoken, often incomprehensible to us, where everything is speculative: every minute is money, every request must be fulfilled and only work gives shape to life. city under the flood becomes a no-man's land where his fate collides with that of a boy who comes from another world. He too is running away, but to survive. And Camilla is forced to stop, lying on the asphalt, soaked rain". And Soldini again: "The city, a contemporary Milan, is the only place in Italy where I could set this film. On the upper floors, finance, million-euro investments, glass and steel; at street level the diversity, poverty and hospitality.Two very distant worlds and at the same time two souls of this city that coexist, and which are the stage on which the story of 3/19 "moves. The film, whose subject and screenplay are by Doriana Leondeff, Davide Lantieri and Silvio Soldini, is produced by Lionello Cerri and Cristiana Mainardi and is an Italy-Switzerland co-production.
