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Peggio che diventare famoso by Filippo Timi |
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Film is never what it seems, a little like life. One day your name is suddenly Rino, you live in Friuli and have to take care of a 14-year-old son and mentally handicapped friend. Yet you’re still Filo, with a reputation for trying anything, a debito d’amore addosso that takes your breath away and a mother who’s obsessed with polka. On the set of Gabriele Salvatores’ film, shut up in a hotel room, every morning you have to strip off your face and put on another. As you wait for the next scene, time is transformed, your sweat mixes with others’ sweat, your stink ferments with the stink of others. A microclimate is created, of moods, hormones and impulses. Everyone laughs over idiotic things that are incomprehensible to the outside world, like some kind of childish code. Everyone pairs off, at least in their thoughts – it is biological law. Making a film means willingly wounding a story. Shattering it. It seems poetic but is not.
Filippo Timi (Perugia, 1974) won the Ubu Award for Best Theatre Actor under 30; he has played Orpheus, Danton, Perceval, Satan; and performed the monologue La vita bestia, based on his debut novel Tuttalpiù muoio (2006), written with Edoardo Albinati. In 2007 he published E lasciamole cadere queste stelle. Between 2007 and 2008, he appeared in the films In Memory of Myself (directed by Saverio Costanzo), Ferzan Ozpetek’s Saturno contro, Wilma Labate’s Signorinaeffe; Giuliano Montaldo’s The Demons of St. Petersburg. After appearing in Gabriele Salvatores’ As God Commands (2008), he will star in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio and the feature debut La Doppia Ora by Giuseppe Capotondi.
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