"Before we suffered, but we lived, now we wait" says the hot-blooded Mauro (Alessandro Gazale) to the placid and resigned Cesare, alias Fabrizio Ferracane, awarded at the Bif&st in Bari as best actor. The first feature film by director Sergio Scavio is a convincing proof of authorship. "La guerra di Cesare" debuted today in Italian theaters and naturally in Sassari, which offered locations and professional and non-professional actors to the feature film produced by Ombre Rosse and Wellsee in collaboration with Rai Cinema and distributed by Rs Production.
Scavio and several actors and actresses spoke at the Cityplex Moderno, receiving sincere compliments for a film that tempers the drama of job losses with irony and poetry. The war that Cesare would like to wage against the company that closes the mine, leaving the workers unemployed, is also a personal revolt against a narrow and modest life. The film proceeds with deliberate leaps, sometimes intense, sometimes grotesque, that instead of taking away homogeneity from the story, accentuate its truth.
There is so much in the film by the director from Sassari, who wrote the screenplay together with Per Paolo Piciarelli. Shots of great aesthetic beauty, significant silences, glances, phrases that leave their mark, many details that denote inventiveness (you dance in a room that has posters of the PCI and the USSR and photos of Berlinguer) and attention to detail. Above all, there is the love for cinema that does not want to be just mere entertainment but "to establish a deeper relationship with the spectator" as Sergio Scavio explains.
The cast also includes Luciano Curreli (Francesco, Mauro's brother), Francesca Ventriglia, Sonia Martinelli, Sabina Zicconi and Daniele Monachella.