What you do not say

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Movie
German title What you do not say
Original title Come non detto
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 2012
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ivan Silvestrini
script Roberto Proia
production Andrea Borella
camera Rocco Marra
cut Alessia Scarso
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Was du nicht sagst (Original title: Come non detto ) is a comedy by the Italian director Ivan Silvestrini from 2012. It was released in Germany on September 29, 2013 on DVD.

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Mattia is 25 years old and lives and studies in Rome. His older sister is married and is expecting her third child, his mother suffers from his father's infidelity and contentiousness, and his grandmother (on his father's side), who lives with them, is constantly looking for a job despite her 84 years. What few people know: Mattia is gay . He himself only discovered his homosexuality after his classmate Christian exposed him for it on a school trip. During his first visit to a gay club, Mattia made the acquaintance of the drag queen Alba (actually: Giacomo), who made him friendly. Only his best friend Stefania knows about it.

Eventually Mattia met the Spaniard Eduard, who was visiting Rome, and entered into a stable relationship with him. His half-hearted attempts to come out to his family and introduce Eduard to them fail, however, also in view of the broken relationship between his parents, and so Mattia continues to keep his sexuality a secret. Eduard, back in Spain, urges him to finally make his coming-out, whereupon Mattia stages the supposedly approving reactions of his parents in front of him with Giacomo's help.

After completing his studies, Mattia plans to move to Eduard in Spain, while he mentions only one job offer to his family. When all preparations for his departure have been made and there is only one last family dinner left, Eduard surprisingly announces that he is on his way to Rome to finally be introduced to Mattia's family. Mattia is horrified and sets Giacomo and Stefania to intercept Eduard and prevent him from attending the dinner.

When the family is finally sitting in full - despite the usual differences of opinion between the parents - at dinner, Mattia tries several times to finally get his coming out over with and finally manages - although Stefania has meanwhile informed him by SMS that Eduard is with her is. Unexpectedly, Mattia can now hear that all family members already knew about it. In response to this general relief, his parents are reconciled again, his grandmother announces that he has finally got a job, and Bernardo, his sister's husband, gives her a long-awaited cruise.

Late in the evening Mattia makes her way to Madrid relieved. On the way he says goodbye to Stefania and picks up Eduard from her, who was made drunk by her. They leave for Spain together.

background

The film is the first and so far only feature film by director Silvestrini, who graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 2009. It was released in Italy on September 7, 2012 by Moviemax . In Edition Salzgeber , the film was released on 29 September 2013 as an original with German subtitles on DVD.

The original title Come non detto (literally: “As if it hadn't been said”) means something like “Forget it” or “Not so important” in German. With this saying towards the end of the film, the protagonist Mattia relativizes an attempted coming-out after he learned from Stefania that Eduard is with her. The English title, however, is Tell No One (“Don't tell anyone”).

The title song Come non detto was written by Sergio Maggioni, Dario Moroldo and Gianluca Picariello and interpreted by the singer Syria and the rapper Ghemon . The text has slight film references and the official music video also contains film scenes.

reception

In La Repubblica it was said that "a handful of jokes" from the film would even make you smile, but the pleasure was "guilty". Roberto Nepoti continues to judge that in Come non detto the comedy " mistakenly mixes with romanticism"; In addition, the only two actually funny jokes - probably unconsciously - are "deeply homophobic".

Federico Boni described Come non detto on CineBlog as a “pleasant discovery”, “fresh, flavored with tingling and funny dialogues”, “with good direction and editing, and above all, excellently played”. The film is "almost 'Anglo-Saxon' when it comes to the treatment of homosexuality", namely "finally anything but stereotype-heavy, but simply 'normal'". Silvestrini gives the audience a “cross-section of everyday life” that even allows them to “make them laugh and move”. The dialogues that “finally make sense and are spiced with surprisingly amusing punchlines” and the “multi-faceted” actors would be surprising. While Come non detto is consistently in the genre of comedy, the film also manages to “set signs” in the social sphere by showing a world of “acceptance of homosexuality”. In this way, the film pushes “head on against internalized, typically Italian homophobia”.

Awards

At the Italian film award Golden Graal , which is awarded by film students , the film was able to achieve two nominations and one of them was won:

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Release certificate for What you do not say . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 672 V).
  2. ↑ a b product info . (PDF) Edition Salzgeber, accessed on June 9, 2015 .
  3. ^ "Avevamo vent'anni" by Ivan Silvestrini vince il Best Student Short Film Award at the Cleveland Film Festival. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , accessed on June 9, 2015 (Italian): "Italy 2009"
  4. ^ “Avevamo vent'anni” di Ivan Silvestrini in concorso al Festival di Beijing. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, accessed on June 9, 2015 (Italian): "film di diploma di Ivan Silvestrini"
  5. ↑ Music video for Come non detto on YouTube
  6. ↑ Le solite battute sul coming out. In: Repubblica.it. September 9, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2015 (Italian): "Un paio di battute fanno anche sorridere, ma è un divertimento colpevole."
  7. ^ Roberto Nepoti: Visti da Roberto Nepoti. In: Repubblica.it. September 8, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2015 (Italian): "la commedia a equivoci si mischia col romanticismo ... le uniche due battute che fanno ridere sono a sfondo [inconsciamente?] Omofobo."
  8. ↑ Federico Boni: Come non Detto: Review in Anteprima. Blogo.it, August 27, 2012, accessed on June 9, 2015 (Italian): “il suo film è una piacevole scoperta. Un titolo fresco, condito da dialoghi frizzanti e divertenti…, ben diretto e montato, e soprattutto ottimamente interpretato. Una pellicola quasi 'anglosassone', per il modo in cui viene trattata l'omosessualitò, finalmente tutt'altro che stereotipata ma semplicemente 'normal'… A stupire… sono i dialoghi, finalmente sensati e conditi da battute straordinariamente esilar, ei pochi ma buoni personaggi, ben sfaccettati… questo film che colpisce al petto l'omofobia interiorizzata di stampo tipicamente italiano… Silvestrini ci regala uno spaccato di vita quotidiana, permettendosi persino di far ridere e commuovere… Galleggiando continuamente su un genere, quello non della commedia… Riesce invece a lasciare il segno anche sul 'sociale', mostrando un mondo, quello dell'accettazione dell'omosessualità. "
  9. ↑ Golden Graal 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2015 (Italian).