Il sol dell'avvenire - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Giovanni, a renowned Italian filmmaker, is about to start shooting a political film. But between his marriage in crisis, his co-producer on the verge of bankruptcy and the rapidly changing film industry, everything seems to be working against him.
A Brighter Tomorrow follows sixty-something Giovanni as he wrestles with a new feature and a moribund marriage to Paola (Margherita Buy), a producer who’s been at his side for 30 years and 13 films. The film-within-the-film is a period drama set amidst a working-class neighborhood in 1950s Rome, where Silvio Orlando plays Ennio, the editor of Italian Communist Party’s daily l’Unità. The year is 1956 and the people of Hungary are rising against their Soviet-controlled regime. The journalists from the L’Unita newspaper have to decide whether to remain loyal to their Soviet masters or to disown them now the Hungarian Revolution has broken out. Fiction soon merges with fact when Giovanni’s relationship with Paola worsens, a financier (Mathieu Almaric) proves unreliable and things get out of hand on set.
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Giovanni, a renowned Italian filmmaker, is about to start shooting a political film. But between his marriage in crisis, his co-producer on the verge of bankruptcy and the rapidly changing film industry, everything seems to be working against him.
A Brighter Tomorrow follows sixty-something Giovanni as he wrestles with a new feature and a moribund marriage to Paola (Margherita Buy), a producer who’s been at his side for 30 years and 13 films. The film-within-the-film is a period drama set amidst a working-class neighborhood in 1950s Rome, where Silvio Orlando plays Ennio, the editor of Italian Communist Party’s daily l’Unità. The year is 1956 and the people of Hungary are rising against their Soviet-controlled regime. The journalists from the L’Unita newspaper have to decide whether to remain loyal to their Soviet masters or to disown them now the Hungarian Revolution has broken out. Fiction soon merges with fact when Giovanni’s relationship with Paola worsens, a financier (Mathieu Almaric) proves unreliable and things get out of hand on set.
