The shoot has wrapped in Rome for Close to Me, the second fiction feature by Stefano Sardo, who presented his feature debut, With or Without You [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], in the Giornate degli Autori at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Starring in this romantic film noir, which reverses the roles of victim and oppressor, are Riccardo Scamarcio (seen recently in Sei fratelli [+lire aussi :
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“Close to Me talks about a ‘man who watches’. Luca [Riccardo Scamarcio] is married to Sara [Maria Chiara Giannetta], a woman who’s richer than he is and who recently turned 40 years old. He is a crisis-riddled teacher who, during the lockdown, ends up being a spectator, watching the life of Amanda (Mariela Garriga), his new neighbour. He decides to bridge the gap that separates them, with disastrous consequences,” explains Stefano Sardo. “For a while now, I’ve wanted to make a film about desire: it’s an explosive element of our lives, and yet it’s sorely lacking in Italian cinema, as if we no longer wondered about this mass of dark energy that resides within us all, whether male or female.”

The movie’s cinematography has been entrusted to Francesco Di Giacomo, who worked with Marco Bellocchio on his recent titles Kidnapped [+lire aussi :
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fiche série], the editing to Sarah McTeigue, the set design to Mauro Vanzati, the wardrobe design to Cristina La Parola, and the casting to Chiara Natalucci and Mara Veneziano.

Written by the director himself together with Giacomo Bendotti, who penned the script for Roberto Andò’s Una storia senza nome [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], Close to Me is an Italian-Serbian co-production by Ines Vasiljević and Stefano Sardo for Nightswim and Medusa Film, in co-production with Jelena Mitrović for Film House Baš Čelik, and with contributions from the MIC – Ministry of Culture. It will be out in Italian theatres courtesy of Medusa Film.