Volere Volare is an ironic and imaginary love story about the obstacles that must be overcome at the beginning
of every new love relationship.
Maurizio is a cartoon sound-man, always in search of all sorts of interesting noises to use in soundtracks for old cartoons.
Martina is a romantic waiting for a different and a special kind of love. Scrupulous on the job, she is stern with her clients,
with whom she maintains a very business-like relationship.
Maurizio and Martina meet. Maurizio immediately falls in love. Troubled by his inexperience in relationships with the opposite sex,
Maurizio begins to change.
During a candlelight dinner, Maurizio is terrified to discover that his hand is transforming into a cartoon.
This marks the beginning of a slow metamorphosis through which Maurizio is subconsciously trying to avoid a physical relationship with Martina.
Maurizio runs away, barricades himself in his house, refuses to answer the door or the telephone or have any contact with Martina.
Perplexed by this odd behavior, Martina becomes intrigued, then enraged and, ultimately conquered. Finally, when she discovers that the man
she loves has become a cartoon, she’s happy that she has finally found a man who is truly different from the rest.
It’s the same technique used for the making of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". When shooting the ‘bed-sequence’, Nichetti was hidden inside the mattress,
shacking the covers and the pillow to simulate the presence of a cartoon character under the covers.
The spaghetti plate was ‘served’ on the table by means of a nylon thread moved by a fishing-rod!
Strangely enough, Martina’s real shadow follows the cartoon character’s body hanging on the Leonardo da Vinci poster on the wall. A technical tidbit.
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