NEWS DIRECTORS FILMS photo gallery director news PROGRAM PRESENTATION REGULATIONS PARTNERS CONTACTS CURRENT EDITION select films APAN - THE APE BARKING WATER CELDA 211 – CELL 211 DE LAATSTE DAGEN VAN EMMA BLANK - THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK DESERT FLOWER DI ME COSA NE SAI - WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME FRANCIA GORDOS HARRAGAS HONEYMOONS I MAGLIARI JE SUIS HEUREUX QUE MA MERE SOIT VIVANTE - I’M GLAD THAT MY MOTHER IS ALIVE L’AMORE E BASTA LA HORDE - THE HORDE LA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA - BLOOD AND RAIN MILLE GIORNI DI VITO POESIA CHE MI GUARDI - POETRY, YOU SEE ME QU’UN SEUL TIENNE ET LES AUTRES SUIVRONT - SILENT VOICES RAGAZZE - LA VITA TREMA - GIRLS, LIFE IS TREMBLING TEAT BEAT OF SEX VIDEOCRACY VITTORIO D. POESIA CHE MI GUARDI - POETRY, YOU SEE ME Portraits Italy - 2009, 52’, minidv, colour - World Premiere (Second Film) directed by Marina Spada screenplay Marella Pessina, Simona Confalonieri, Marina Spada cinematography Sabina Bologna editing Carlotta Cristiani music Tommaso Leddi sound Paolo Benvenuti art direction Fabrizio Longo costumes Marella Berzini cast Elena Ghiaurov (Maria) Carlo Bassetti (Nicola) Enrica Chiurazzi (Manuela) Marco Colombo Bolla (Stefano) producer Renata Tardani production Miro Film Via Fontana 28, 20122 Milano, Italia Tel. +39.02 55019330 Fax +39.02 55019307 renata@mirofilm.it Provincia di Milano, Comune di Milano press office Isabella Rhode, Lo Scrittoio sas Tel. +39 02 4983111 Fax +39 02 4984260 Mob. +39 347 4305496 irhode@scrittoio.net synopsis Beginning with Antonia Pozzi, an original and passionate Italian poet of the 20th century, who killed herself at the tender age of 26 in 1938, Poesia che mi guardi reflects upon the role of the artist and poet in society, then and now. The film gives voice to her poetry and her tormented existential search, her wariness towards men, who dismissed her poetic talent as an emotional disorder, and towards her social environment, Milan’s upper class, which kept her from living her life with sincerity and passion. The driving force and narrator of the film is Maria, a filmmaker who, fascinated with Pozzi, studies and her work and researches the world and people of her life. A decisive moment for Maria comes when she meets a group of university students who write their poems anonymously on walls around Milan, convinced that in our lives there is always a great need for poetry. Maria involves them in her project: she wants Antonia Pozzi’s poetry to be revived in Milan through the students, no longer as a solitary and intimate expression, but as a shared moment. She wants this action to redeem Antonia Pozzi, to give her the recognition and visibility denied her when she was alive. I was punk before you were, sang Enrico Ruggeri. And poet Antonia Pozzi, the daughter of a countess and a lawyer with ties to the fascist regime, was definitely punk. She wrote bold, decisive, feminist, almost thunderous verses – “for too much life I have in me.” Marina Spada came to Venice Days with the beautiful As a Shadow and like her previous film, this one is also set in Milan, her personal photographic obsession, though this version of the city is more central and elegant. The film offers verses over moving and static images, home movies, contagious poetry written on walls (the H5N1), Antonia’s “crazy desire to give myself,” her extreme sentimental and political sensibility, like her suicide, her poetry and her limitless loves and prejudices. “Look at me, I am nude”: one of her most beautiful verses also describes the spirit of this sweet and poetic work. Boris Sollazzo PHOTOGALLERY PROGRAMMING   09/09/2009 - 16:00 hours POESIA CHE MI GUARDI Sala Pasinetti Press, Industry, All accreditations 11/09/2009 - 12:15 hours POESIA CHE MI GUARDI Sala Perla 2 Tickets, All accreditations Followed by Q&A          PB_Poesiachemiguardi_IT.pdf        PB_Poesiachemiguardi_ENG.pdf