Giacomo's summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Giacomo's summer |
| Original title | L'estate di Giacomo |
| Country of production |
Italy France Belgium |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alessandro Comodin |
| script | Alessandro Comodin |
| production | Paolo Benzi |
| camera |
Tristan Bordmann Jean-Jacques Quinet |
| cut | Alessandro Comodin João Nicolau |
| occupation | |
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Giacomo's Summer (original title: L'estate di Giacomo ) is a semi-documentary film by the director Alessandro Comodin from 2011. The 19-year-old, formerly deaf Giacomo spends a few summer days with Stefania, his childhood friend, after undergoing a hearing operation has undergone.
action
At the beginning Giacomo plays a drum solo in a bare room. The moving hand camera films him from behind. You can see your hearing aid behind your ear.
Stefania and Giacomo fight their way through bushes, forest, weeds and muddy paths to a beautiful, deep turquoise shining spot on the river. There they jump into the water, Giacomo throws mud at Stefania. She tells him to stop. Then they sit down on the bank for a peaceful picnic.
Giacomo walks around the drums on which Stefania plays a solo this time. He screams more than just sings.
At the edge of a small wood, next to a field, Giacomo and Stefania wander aimlessly. They smoke a joint and play baseball with a branch and a rotten fruit.
The two hang out in his room. On the laptop the song is playing Egyptian Reggae by Jonathan Richman .
The song continues into the next scene. Giacomo and Stefania ride a chain carousel on the night fair. Then they let themselves drift through the folk festival, watch older couples dance and finally shake the dance floor themselves, initially uncertain. The evening ends with fireworks.
Stefania and Giacomo are again lying on the beach of the river. They fool around and throw mud at each other again. When Stefania gets something in her eye, it is the reason for the two to talk about life. Stefania tells him that "happiness is in the little things".
In the light of the evening sun, Giacomo rides along a country road with Stefania, who is on the luggage rack of the bicycle. You can also hear the piece of music: Fifteen years ago by Dupap .
In the end, Giacomo and his new girlfriend Barbara are at another point on the river. While she is swimming you can hear a text about the insecurity and fragility of first love. Then they hug.
background
For the entire beginning of the film, one only sees the protagonists filmed from behind with a moving handheld camera. Only when they reach the idyllic spot on the river are the faces of Stefania and Giacomo clearly visible.
Giacomo has an indefinite aggression against Stefania throughout the film, but she gets along with this mood quite well because she has been familiar with it for years.
Originally, the film was planned as a documentary showing Giacomo's life before the operation, and then only the summer afterwards with speech therapy and getting used to normal hearing.
The river on which essential parts of the film were shot is the Tagliamento in the Italian province of Friuli .
criticism
“When the director Alessandro Comodin started his film in the northern Italian plain, he had a clear idea of what he wanted. He wanted to make a documentary, but it ended up being something completely different and a great movie at the same time. One who really blows you away. Comodin discovered a story he hadn't planned. "
"[...] With the same sure feeling, the film slowly condenses a mood that tells of freedom, lightness and affection, but which is also mixed with a little sadness: Autumn has already started."
"Director Alessandro Comodin carefully lets a still vague discomfort arise - between two people who are already too old for childish play and who are slowly drifting apart into adulthood."
“(Documentary) film about falling in love and growing up, in which the protagonists recognize that memories determine the present, but the experiences linked to it belong to a bygone era; of course, they also pave the way for new discoveries. The film treats its subject sensitively and with fairytale tones. "
Awards
International Film Festival of Locarno - Pardo d'oro Cineasti del presente - Premio George Foundation
Web links
- Giacomo's Summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Distribution site
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Alessandro Comodín on filmdeculte.com (French)
- ↑ Claudia Tieschky in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 25, 2012
- ↑ Isabella Reicher in Der Standard from 22./23. October 2011
- ↑ Sebastian Handke in DIE ZEIT from August 15, 2011
- ↑ Giacomo's summer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release from the Locarno Film Festival