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BEFORE IT HAD A NAME
Special Screening
year 2005 length 99' color 35mm country USA-Italy
directed by Giada Colagrande
Screenplay Giada Colagrande, Willem Dafoe
Cast Giada Colagrande (Eleonora), Willem Dafoe (Leslie), Seymour Cassel (Jeff), Emily McDonnell (Gail), Isaach De Bankolé (waiter)
Cinematography Ken Kelsch
Art direction Lino Fiorito
Editing Natalie Cristiani
Costume design Ennio Capasa
Producer Rita Capasa, Randall Emmett, Brian Bell
Production Nu Image / Millennium Films
Co-production Emmett / Furla Films, Bidou Pictures
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synopsis
A young Italian woman, Eleonora, inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house covered with black rubber, and goes to see it for the first time.
As soon as she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house: Leslie. He introduces her to the house. And to Karl’s past. The house reveals secrets about Karl, making Eleonora realize she’s been so devoted to someone she didn’t know at all. She panics and calls Leslie to come and help.
From that moment, she realizes how much she needs him. And becomes more and more dependent on him. He starts taking care of her: she is now part of the house.
But while Eleonora can only live with obsessive love, Leslie has avoided love all his life. The rubber house forces them into a space of intimacy, where they must abandon their natures.
Living out a dangerous and beautiful illusion, they will try to change their destiny…
The perception of the female world can be a ghetto in which the presumed “diversity” of the perspective can be easily confined. But when this perspective becomes a point of view which is contrasted to the “diversity of the male world”, then a lively dialectic which is simultaneously aesthetic, psychoanalytic, and ideological can be created. In her second film, the rebellious and courageous director of Open My Heart attempts to perform quite a feat: the exploration of unknown territory becomes a programmed voyage into “the other”, into that area of existence that still has no name. If one of the objectives of Venice Days - Giornate degli Autori is to accompany filmmakers who are looking for their own artistic dimension, then in this case the objective has been reached.
(Giorgio Gosetti)
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