(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 24 - "I as Light have grown up in the challenges of life where, in the end, it's all about disliding doors".
So today Ambra Angiolini talks about herself as her character in THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR, the beautiful film, with an experimental, rarefied soul, by Simone Aleandri out of competition at the Turin Film Festival and now in cinemas from 27 January with Vision.
We are talking about the longest night of the year, the one between 21st and 22nd December (winter solstice), a magical night with the sun setting around 4.30pm and rising in the afternoon at 7.30am.
Within this long night, four stories without too much hope intertwine and touch each other in a small provincial town (Potenza) where Christmas lights seem to be everywhere.
There is a politician (Massimo Popolizio) who, one step away from the elections, which should confirm it, discovers that he is about to be arrested.
In the second story, however, a not very young cubist (Ambra Angiolini), who lives with an impossible and sick father (Alessandro Haber), has decided to change her life, fed up with her work.
Then there is a boy (LuigiFedele) involved in a relationship with a much older woman, his former teacher,