Film Info
L’estate di Giacomo

Film Information

Exhibition Title	L’estate di Giacomo
Original Title	L’estate di Giacomo
English Title	Summer of Giacomo
Director	Alessandro Comodin
Countrys
Year	2011
Format	DM
Colour	Color
Duration	78'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Giacomo Zulian, Stefania Comodin, Barbara Colombo

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Alessandro Comodin
Fotografía / Cinematography: Tristan Bordmann
Edición / Editing: João Nicolau, Alessandro Comodin
Producción / Producer: Paolo Benzi, Alessandro Comodin, Marie Géhin, Réjane Michel, Valérianne Boué
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Faber Film, Les Films Nus, Les Films d’Ici

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Synopsis

Giacomo is 19 and he’s almost completely deaf. He spends a summer day wondering through the woods near the north Italian border with his friend Stefania. They walk seeking a place to access the river and swim, few words are mentioned (they know each other too well), they walk some more, they get tired, they put together a picnic, they continue walking and arrive at an amusement park. That is almost everything that happens in Comodin’s first film, winner of the Golden Leopard in the Filmmakers of the Present section of the Locarno Film Festival. That is “almost” because, near the end of the movie, a revelation we shouldn’t spoil takes place. A turning point that makes us rethink everything we have seen so far, and softly pushes this luminous, tender, and sensual coming of age story (even if Giacomo and Stefania barely touch each other) towards the obscure and ambiguous world of the end of innocence. It’s a world where Comodin extracts a quiet tension out of the characters’ backs (evoking the Dardenne brothers’ films) and imposes it with the strength of a wild drum solo.