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NEMMENO IL DESTINO / CHANGING DESTINY
year 2004 length 110' colour 35mm Country Italy
directed by Daniele Gaglianone
Cast Mauro Cordella (Alessandro), Fabrizio Nicastro (Ferdi), Giuseppe Sanna (Toni), Lalli (Adele), Gino Lana (Sebastiano), Stefano Cassetti (Alessandro)
Screenplay Daniele Gaglianone, Giaime Alonge, Alessandro Scippa
Cinematography Gherardo Rossi
Editing Luca Gasparini
Art direction Valentina Ferroni
Costume Design Marina Roberti
Music Giuseppe Napoli
Producers Domenico Procacci, Gianluca Arcopinto, Pierpaolo Trezzini
Production Fandango, Armadillo
Italian distribution Fandango
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synopsis
Changing Destiny is a story about the outskirts. The outskirts of the city and the soul, this is the physical and mental space, the existential limbo of the two young protagonists: Alessandro (Mauro Cordella) and Ferdi (Fabrizio Nicastro). They are between 15 and 17 years old, they are school friends along with Toni and live in a post- (maybe it would be better to say ex-) industrial city in decadence, being dismantled and/or restructured and invaded by construction sites. Ale and Ferdi are searching for their place, their place in the world, an oasis among the rubble which isn’t just that of the discarded factories. The rubble is also that of their families; Alessandro is the son of an unwed mother who in spite of her efforts to lead a normal life appears ever more the prisoner of her painful past. Ferdi lives with his father, an ex-workman who became seriously ill in the factory and turned to the bottle. With an instinctive, unconscious maturity the two of them try to escape their fate and the defeated world of their parents, but their attempt to save themselves relentlessly ends up in tragedy. Remembering those who hoped for a world saved by young people, these two boys are trying to save themselves from the world. It is a story of painful growing-up, and also of courageous reconciliation with life, through the fire of a rebellion which is above all interior.
The first thing that hits and impassions us about this second film from the director of The Years of Our Lives is its fragmented state and its temperamental and explicit writing . This is a film that has that rare and unusual capacity to renew itself while retaining its aesthetic integrity.
The second evocative element lies in the distance between the camera and the actors which allows us to witness the vulnerable passion of the main characters lost in the senseless rage of today’s youth. This, however, does not mean that they are compliant, heroic or positive.
A third memory left us of this film is the loss and the silence of the mother-child who inhabits this film. It is a painful, subdued silence which contrasts strongly with the scream of the raging world outside.
Giorgio Gosetti
director's statement
This film is for all those people who have lost themselves forever, for those who have lost themselves and found themselves, for all the friends made at that age when becoming friends is instinctive, for all the parents and children who understood each other too late, for those who can’t take it, who think that there must be another place to conquer. It is an angry elegy, a sob shouted out, a silent mute scream against the ghosts of the past and the monsters of the present.
Daniele Gaglianone
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