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Patxi, Papini Speak on Noir |
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| 09/12/2009 |
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At the Jardin de l'Ange, Courmayeur audiences got a chance to speak with two directors today: Andrea Papini, who presented his work-in-progress La misura del confine (literally, “Border Measurements”), and Paxti Amezcua, director of competition film 25-Carat.
Amezcua, who was born in Pamplona but lives in Madrid, set his story in Barcelona and says, “When I wrote the screenplay I had thought of Madrid, but then for practical reasons we decided to shoot in Barcelona. But the story could be set in any European metropolis. The characters on the screen could belong to any city.”
In fact, the characters come from the world over: Kosovo, South American, Romanian, and so forth. Says the filmmaker: “Obviously today in these large cities you can find people from completely different places, and this mix, of races, languages and skin colors is reflected in the criminal world.”
25-Carat is a classic cop drama. “I started out as a screenwriter,” said Amezcua, “and for my first film as a director wanted a solid screenplay, without any holes. When you make a noir you need characters and stories that are precise and coherent. Only in this way can you create suspense. I’m a fan of noir, and I wanted a story that held up well, so I tried to create a combination between a certain realism, an element typical to American films, and an exploration of the relationships between the characters, which is instead a typically European characteristic.”
From the underworld to the mountaintops: the second feature film by Andrea Papini, one of the founders of the satellite network Microcinema, takes place in the Alps, on Red Mountain. In a mountain refuge, two topographers – one Swiss, the other Italian – debate the ownership of a mummy buried in a glacier along the border of the two countries. Said Papini: “I like working on beauty, one that is also symbolic, which allows me to return to fundamental elements. I think this is the best path to take for giving viewers the mechanisms to reflect upon the contemporary, without tackling it directly.”
The cast includes Paolo Bonanni, Lorenzo Degli Innocenti, Giovanni Guardiano, Peppino Mazzotta, Beatrice Orlandini, Adriana Ortolani, Tommaso Spinelli, Thierry Toscan, Massimo Zordan and Luigi Iacuzio. The latter accompanied Papini to Courmayeur and in the film plays an Italian mountain guide who, according to Iacuzio, “is a strange character. He represents the conscience and lack of conscience of the story.”
Produced by Alba, La Misura del Confine will be released next April. |
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