La stella che non c'è (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Gianni Amelio

Escritores:

Ermanno Rea (novel)
Gianni Amelio (screenplay) ...
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 septiembre 2006 (Italy)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Labourer Vincenzo travels from Italy to China in search of a machine with a deficiency that was produced in the now defunct establishment at which Vincenzo worked for years. |

Plot Keywords:

China | Steel Factory | Poverty | Translator | Road Movie

Premios:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Nowadays China seen with an Italian man's eyes

Reparto

Sergio Castellitto	...	Vincenzo Buonavolontà
Ling Tai	...	Liu Hua
Angelo Costabile	...	Giovane operaio
Hiu Sun Ha	...	Chong
Catherine Sng	...	Segretaria cinese
Enrico Vanigiani	...	Dirigente acciaerie
Roberto Rossi	...	Dirigente acciaeria
Chungqing Xu	...	Direttore ufficio shanghai
Biao Wang	...	Commissario di polizia
Jian-yun Zhao	...	Studente al computer
Qian-hao Huang	...	Giovane sfruttatore
Xiu-feng Luo	...	Ragazzo del pullman
Xian-bi Tang	...	La nonna
Lin Wang	...	Bambino figlio di liu hua
Yong Guo	...	Ragazzo del posto di ristoro
Ping Duan	...	Autista del camion
Zhen-duo Li	...	Barbiere
Qing Ma	...	Impiegato acciaeria cinese

Dirigida por
Gianni Amelio

Créditos del guión
Ermanno Rea		(novel "La dismissione")
Gianni Amelio		(screenplay) and
Umberto Contarello		(screenplay)

Producida por
Zaihirat Banu	....	co-producer
Marco Chimenz	....	producer
Fabio Conversi	....	co-producer
Mario Cotone	....	executive producer: Exon
Giorgio Innocenti	....	co-executive producer
Therese Scherer-Kollbrunner	....	co-producer
Giovanni Stabilini	....	producer
Riccardo Tozzi	....	producer

Música original por
Franco Piersanti

Fotografía por
Luca Bigazzi

Montaje por
Simona Paggi

Departamento de maquillaje
Fernanda Perez	....	key makeup artist

Dirección de producción
Claudia Crocione	....	unit manager: Italy
Ivana Kastratovic	....	unit manager

Ayudante de dirección
Sergio Basso	....	assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Remo Ugolinelli	....	sound

Efectos especiales
Massimiliano Bianchi	....	special effects technician: Italy
Pasquale Catalano	....	special effects technician: Italy
Germano Natali	....	special effects rain
Fabio Traversari	....	special effects supervisor: Italy

Visual Effects
Stefano Camberini	....	digital mastering editor
Simone Fontana	....	digital mastering editor

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Salvatore Bognanni	....	assistant camera
Paolo Cafiero	....	second assistant camera
Claudio Iannone	....	still photographer
Patrizio Marra	....	grip

Departamento de Edición
Carlo Simeoni	....	assistant editor

Departamento de Música
Angelo Giovagnoli	....	orchestra coordinator
Davide Palmiotto	....	music mix assistant

Otros miembros del equipo
Joshua Berman	....	co-production supervisor
Paola Chicarella	....	production accountant
Elide Cortesi	....	script supervisor
Paolo Iocchi Gratta	....	accountant: China
Annalisa Paolicchi	....	publicity director: 01
Viviana Ronzitti	....	publicity director
Laura Trombetta	....	production coordinator

Compañías Productores

• Cattleya
• Babe Film
• Rai Cinema
• Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana (RTSI)
• Carac Films
• ACHAB Film (in collaboration with)
• Oak 3 Films (in collaboration with)
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) (support)
• Liguria Film Commission (support)

Distribuidores

• A-Film Distribution (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (200?) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Lakeshore International (2006) (worldwide) (all media)
• Long Shong Entertainment Multimedia Company (2007) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
• Pyramide Distribution (2006) (France) (theatrical)

Efectos especiales

• Ghost SFX

También conocida como:

Il manque une étoile (France)
L'étoile imaginaire (France)
The Missing Star (International: English title)

Duración:

Canada:103 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

Italy | Switzerland | France | Singapore

Idioma:

Mandarin | Italiano

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Netherlands:AL | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

China

Compañía:

Cattleya

Nowadays China seen with an Italian man's eyes

"The missing star", who competed for the Golden Lion at 2006 Venice Film Festival, is a film that, when you think about, the first adjective that comes to your mind is: intense. Intense looks, intense sequences, this movie's intensity captures the viewer since the very first scenes at the steelworks, in Italy (I couldn't recognize the city, maybe Genoa or even Naples), although the pace is quite slow.

Vincenzo Buonavolontà, the male lead, and with him, all the audience, sees a completely different China than a normal Westerner imagines: horrible high-rise building with about 8 hundred flat owners inside, skyscrapers, desolation, fog, scrapers and cranes everywhere, but also the beauty of the Yangtze Kiang river, that will soon become a big lake because of the controversial dike that will wipe a lot of towns out. China is a country under construction, but, under all these colossal public works, there are still poverty, backwardness and unfair laws.

We can relate more easily to this story because Gianni Amelio, the expert director, chose two phenomenal leads: Sergio Castellitto, a well-known actor in Italy, and the Chinese surprise Tai Ling, a total unknown girl that gives an as intense interpretation as Castellitto's.

The film is not perfect, there are some flaws here and there, but that doesn't mean it's a mediocre film. Try to see it.