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IL GIORNO DEL FALCO
year 2004 length 87' colour 35mm Country Italy
directed by Rodolfo Bisatti
Cast Stefano Cassetti (the Chinese Man ), Mario Rodighiero (the Old Man), Giacomo De Domenico (the Journalist), Mario Pigatto (il Cameraman), Benedetta Cesqui (the Policewoman), Giovanni Beni (Carlo), Alisa Bystrova (Slavic Woman)
DirectionRodolfo Bisatti
Direction Rodolfo Bisatti
Screenplay Rodolfo Bisatti, Maurizio Pasetti
Cinematography Fabio Olmi
Editing Paolo Cottignola
Art Direction Laura Ziliotto
Musica Alessandro Camanini, Maurizio Pasetti
Production Ipotesi Cinema in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
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synopsis
A reporter (Giacomo De Domenico) for a local television station in the Triveneto region decides to do a story on a crime which has particularly shaken him: an attempted burglary carried out by two first time criminals, both of whom are masked, the Old Man (Mario Rodighiero) and the Chinese man ( Stefano Cassetti ).
Hidden beneath these masks the reporter discovers Michele, a mechanic who is on the verge of getting married to a Russian girl and Lucio, a traveling florist.
As the reporter begins to delve deeper into the lives of these two “bandits” he realises that he is actually taking a personal voyage into himself in an effort to find a deeper meaning for not only his work but also for his entire existence.
He discovers that what counts is not the outcome of the news story but this inner journey within the unexplored world of the Northeast where he has found humanity and a capacity for self irony and has learned how valuable friendship and work can be as implements of knowledge.
This arresting first feature is something of a shaggy dog story, with two Quixotic sort of heroes and a rambling, comic plot, with nods to both Kusturica and Jodorowsky, Il giorno del falco has a playful edge that looks at characters on the outside of normal existence, showing, with real affection, their idiosyncrasies and emotional outbursts. It also has an amusing take on the business of TV journalism, showing the gradual disaffection of a reporter and his cameraman, who are constantly discouraged by their bosses for pursuing this story and who thus become more and more aware of the processed, homogenous and superficial nature of the local news media. It is also an entertaining, unusual representation of North East Italy.
Adrian Wootton
director's statement
I wanted to tell an everyday commonplace story, (banks in the Northeast are robbed, on average, once a day), full of ordinary places in a physical area which looks more and more like a spaceship with inhabitants that look more and more like aliens.
My aim with this film has been to make the incredible seem more credible. This explains the dramatic shift which, rather than being merely arbitrary chaos, was necessary in order to show the images through a shattered mirror of memories and to create the polyhedral outside covering.
Rodolfo Bisatti
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