A love that resists time and distance and that lives through an exchange of letters told on a journey between the 90s and the present and between Spain and Bologna.
And again, missed and seized opportunities that change and consume.
It is the story of Anna, played by Micaela Ramazzotti, and Alessandro, played by Stefano Accorsi, protagonists of 'un Amore', the new Sky original series created by Accorsi and Enrico Audenino, which will debut on Sky and streaming on NOW on the 16th February, in the week of Valentine's Day and tells of "a non-linear time, a story, an indissoluble bond, stronger than time and distance".
"There is no absolute love - explains Stefano Accorsi - and it is no coincidence that we left 'un' in the title of the series lowercase. Talking about love is one of the most difficult things, 5 letters that contain a myriad of meanings, which is why every love is different”, he adds "But sensations must also be transformed into images, and so the first episode took shape, between moments of the present and the past, and my Bologna, the memories and the rest.
The idea that we start from an interrail is beautiful, two guys meet almost by mistake, the love in this story is out of synch, but which one isn't?
You know when in horror films the protagonists split up at the beginning of their story.
It is a means of amplifying fear.
We did the same thing with the six episodes". Set between Bologna and Spain, the series is made up of six episodes written by Accorsi himself together with Giordana Mari, Teresa Gelli and Francesco Lagi, who also directed them. Accorsi Micaela Ramazzotti they play the lovers Alessandro and Anna, who as young people have the faces of Luca Santoro and Beatrice Fiorentini. Produced by Sky Studios and Cattleya, part of ITV Studios, with the Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual and with the support of the Emilia Region -Romagna, through the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission. Alessandro (Luca Santoro) and Anna (Beatrice Fiorentini), just over 18, meet by chance during an Interrail trip in Spain. It is a hot summer in the late 90s and the two fall in love immediately. Soon the two are forced to separate. Over the years they remain linked by an intense epistolary relationship, without ever managing to find the courage to see each other. Twenty years after their first meeting and now adults (Accorsi and Ramazzotti), they find themselves Bologna.
The cast includes Alessandro Tedeschi who plays Guido, Anna's husband, Andrea Roncato, Ivan Zerbinati and Camille Dugay.
The series also stars Ottavia Piccolo as Teresa, Alessandro's mother.
Ramazzotti adds: "When I met Stefano and the director for the first time, and we talked about Anna, I understood that my character is a very sweet liar. She has two loves in her life. Her partner is the father of her child. She keeps this secret for twenty years. She loves both these men. Between Alessandro and Anna there are letters written in pen, a different weight compared to the text messages and voice messages on the cell phone. Buying the paper, writing with a trembling hand, then waiting for the answer".
Accorsi replies: "It's true, we Italians lie more than others. Maybe because we talk too much, we don't have the "unsaid" but the lies. But we also do it to protect each other, so I absolutely don't consider Anna a negative character."
"When Stefano Accorsi's ideas arrive we are there. We were missing the romance genre - adds Nils Hartmann,
Executive Vice-President Sky Studios for Italy - There is nothing more universal than first love.
And successful stories must take a universal and make it unique.
And we think we succeeded.
Indeed, to have gone further, because this series not only talks about love, but also about missed opportunities, about "What ifs", about nostalgia and second chances, but it is also a thriller that leaves you in suspense until the end" "For some time - continues Riccardo Tozzi, founder and CEO of Cattleya - we have felt the desire to try our hand at a pure relational story that would allow us to investigate the multiple nature of feelings in a free way, without genre constraints and narrative devices.
I'm sure the public wanted it too, the film results of the year also tell us about it.
For this reason, when Stefano Accorsi proposed that we tell a love story that we can embrace.
Director Francesco Lagi: "We tried to render the various temporal planes, memory and reality in the most fluid way possible. The story became a ride inside this feeling. The passing of time is the lens to tell this series".
Enrico Audenino "This story tries to answer the question 'How does a love survive for a long time?'. In our opinion it survives if you don't experience it, but then in that case we are not experiencing a love..."
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