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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2002 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

GRAZIA'S ISLAND

Category: Edition 2002

Synopsis
Grazia is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale, the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan.

Original Title Respiro
Italian Title Respiro
Category Official Competition
Section Free to Fly
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 95'
Production Year 2002
Directed by Emanuele Crialese
Screenplay Emanuele Crialese
Main cast Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa

 regista emanuele crialeseEMANUELE CRIALESE

Emanuele Crialese (Rome, 27 May 1965) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
Emanuele Crialese was born in Rome from Sicilian parents. He studied at New York University, where he graduated in 1995.
After filming several shorts, he made his feature debut in 1997, Once We Were Strangers, an Italian-American co-production, financed by a producer who had noticed Crialese during his apprenticeship in the United States. In the film, as in his other works, Vincenzo Amato appears.
Following are the feature films Respiro and Nuovomondo, both set in Sicily, films that have enjoyed considerable success with critics and audiences, especially abroad, especially in France.