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The Italian premiere is expected on November 15th, 1996.
"Luna e l’altra" is the fifth feature film produced by Bambù, the film production company founded by Ernesto Di Sarro and Maurizio Nichetti in 1988.
"I find it difficult to talk about a movie one has just completed.
The anxiety and fatigue connected to it are too close.
I prefer mentioning the many successful collaborations I had which made this film possible. There have been many good ones indeed.
I’d like to start by mentioning LUCA BIGAZZI, the cinematographer. We had known each other for a while, but never had a chance to
work together until now. I believe my film was his first comedy, among a rich portfolio of dramatic films. He did a terrific job
in softening the colors, obtaining the real ‘Fifties’ look. I was very pleased with his ‘period’ reconstruction, credit he shares
naturally with the film’s set and costume designer MARIA PIA ANGELINI. She worked on memory in a keen search for even the tiniest
details, essential to the reconstruction of a story which took place over forty years ago. Maria Pia has designed sets and costumes
for all my films since "Ratataplan". But ours is not only a happy-professional-relationship... We have been married since 1975!
Post-production has always been a fundamental element in my movies. It implies a huge amount of editing to ensure that fantasy
perfectly matches reality. Since "The Icycle Thief", up to "Luna e L’altra", RITA ROSSI has been the guardian angel of each movie
frame. She mixed color commercials with neo-realist black and white footage in The Icycle Thief, put together live action actors
and cartoon characters in Volere Volare, assembled Stefano Quantestorie’s seven parallel lives, and made it possible for LUNA to
talk to her own shadow in Luna e L’altra. For each film, this not only imply great expertise in editing, but also in special
effects and animation. When I met CARLO SILIOTTO a couple of years ago, we didn’t need to talk much. We immediately shared the
same vision about how music can inhance the images’ emotional content. LUNA E L’ALTRA’s original soundtrack was composed to
amplify feelings rather than to underline frame cuts. "Father’s Theme", "Teacher’s Theme", "Shadow’s Theme", "Circus’ Theme" and
so on chase one another throughout the movie, blending together in a natural, old fashioned manner.
My last but, not least, mention goes to ERNESTO DI SARRO, with whom I share the growing pains as well as the joys of a film
production company, "Bambù", under which all my films have been produced since 1988.
Without him, I wouldn’t have been able to work on such original films, moreover difficult to convey through screenplays.
It’s hard to ask unconditional trust on inventive ideas, calling for production techniques confining with the experimental.
You must love Cinema, have a high opinion of your partner and share true friendship. These qualities are lacking most of the
time in the avarege Italian production reality. But we at "Bambù" keep trying, and each time we hold our breath waiting to see
the results!
But for us this too is doing Cinema!".
| Maurizio Nichetti |
Luna Di Capua: Iaia Forte
Her father: Aurelio Fierro
The headmaster: Luigi Burruano
Caimi, the teacher: Ivano Marescotti
Angelo Franchini: Maurizio Nichetti
Vito, the butcher: Eraldo Turra
Igor the Wizard: Luciano Manzalini
Mijscia: Marco Pironti
Jermal: Fabio Santacroce
Mijscia’s mother: Eva Robbin's
The band of the Circus: Banda Osiris
