Moderator: Gianni Canova, rector and film historian
The debut novel by actor and director Vinicio Marchioni, Tre notti is the tale
of an adolescence that explodes, becomes rage and pain, and then slowly recomposes itself,
laboriously. A hymn to life, an investigation into masculinity and the passing of time.
Suburbs of Rome, Friday 29 November 1991. Andrea is fifteen years old and his mother accompanies him for the last time to see his father, or rather what is left of the man who abandoned them long ago to go and live with another woman and whose cancer is now eating away at him, a matter of a few hours.
The scene of this totally asymmetrical encounter, as the father no longer has the strength to look at his son or answer his questions, is ‘the farm’, as Andrea calls it, the house that the men of his family have built with their own hands, sack after sack of cement. Upset by that encounter, almost feverish with grief, rage, bewilderment and regret, the boy steals his grandfather’s car and runs away, without even knowing how to drive, making even his mother, who desperately searches for him, lose all trace of himself.
A chorus of unforgettable unresolved male characters – punctuated by resolute women, such as sixteen-year-old Martina, madly in love with Axl Rose – will accompany
Andrea along three decisive nights, on a journey to discover himself and a father he has never known.
Among the others are Memmo, owner of the Bar dello Sport, Nerone – a degree in Philosophy, a thousand jobs and even jail time behind him -, Uncle Mauro and Sorcapelata, the first homosexuals in the suburb.
Men who were often brutal, crude, betrayed and treacherous, and yet always supportive, accomplices, guardians of each other’s secrets of a lifetime.
13 July
Hours: 18:30 p.m.
Back to the films