a film by Michel Comte
screenwriters Anne-Marie Mackay, Ayako Yoshida, Michel Comte
producers Michel Comte, Amy Filbeck
music Alessandro Cipriani, Luigi Ceccarelli
cinematographer Gigi Malavasi
production Designer James Dean
editor Nick Tamburri
sound design Maurizio Argentieri
principal cast Mariko Wordell, Edorado Ponti, Christopher Lee,
Michael Wincott, Michael Nyqvist, Polina Semionova, Ayako Yoshida
10 Novembre 2013, ore 18-23, Naples (Fl, USA)
Naples International Film Festival
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
New Frontier Films
1/21/2014 2:30 pm – Library Center Theatre, Park City
1/22/2014 9:45 pm – Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City
1/23/2014 7:00 pm – Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City
1/25/2014 6:00 pm – Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City
Michel Comte’s charming debut film as a director interprets this modern love story as an epic show of love and loss, and through an extraordinary formal construction. Based on Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”, the film introduces a different figure of Cho Cho san, a little girl who survived the bombing of Nagasaki at the end of World War II who falls in love with an astronaut. Comte continually shifts the model of representation, from ballet, to video art, to opera, presenting the life story of Cho cho san through numerous windows that intertwine narration and performance, expanding the idea of cinema in the direction that Comte himself defines as “trans -Opera”
review
“I came out of The Girl from Nagasaki thinking I’d never seen a film like that before. Bold, experimental, engagingly weird and sometimes just a little silly in its seriousness, The Girl from Nagasaki is the most adventurously artistic vision I’ve seen in years….” (Marshall Fine – The Huffington Post 26/1/2014).
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