Ellipsis General Catalogue 2012

original title GIRAVOLTE
international title Freewheeling in Rome
directed by Carola Spadoni
screenplay Carola Spadoni, Graziano Misuraca
cast Victor Cavallo, Drena De Niro, Raz Degan, Andrea Bruschi
cinematography Giulio Pietromarchi, Paolo Carnera, Stefano Moser
editing Carlotta Cristiani, Cecilia Pagliarani
set design Helga Williams
costume design Helga Williams
producer Gianluca Arcopinto
production Axelotil ‐ Pablo
world sales Ellipsis Media International
year 2001
national distribution PABLO DISTRIBUZIONE INDIPENDENTE
film run 85'
language Italian
Country Italy
genre Comedy
BERLINALE 2002: Forum;
CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002: Women Behind The Camera;
festival & awards CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002: New Directors Competiton;
MOSTRA DE VALENCIA 2002: Official Selection;
TURIN FILM FESTIVAL 2001: In Competition;
Synopsis
A metropolitan adventure film that goes through an
homeless shack under a bridge, a flea market, a night bar.
Locations where the characters and their stories are on the
edge of ordinary working routines. Roma in our times.
Victor Cavallo, nomad, roman, is the protagonist voyager. At
the shack under the Testaccio bridge four men are having
lunch. They live there and Victor is their guest. The lunch is
interrupted by two girls that are camping near by and wake
up after a night spent together.
Relentlessly the girls have to deal with the five men, but
their discussion finds an abrupt end when a young man is
attempting suicide down by the river. One of the girls confronts her peer after saving him.
In Porta Portese the vivid and sonorous twirls of the flea market host the adventures of our clients and
vendors. Encounters of two women in their fifties regular customers at down dirty vendors, a thirty
something father struggling through the confusion trying to get good deals, three twenty years old girls
squatters still waking up while selling comic books, a filmmaker looking for censored short ends and films.
Desires, delusions, deals and thoughts unfold with the flow of the market. Victor gives out flyers as
candidate for the election of the city mayor. A poetic and sharp provocation in the times of economic
globalization.
In the night interior at the bar near by the Mercati Generali the usual clients drink into the same old night,
Victor is one of them. Confessions and resentments transpire until new clients come in, from a violoncello
player to an american couple, and the single stories interwine to a tragic and comic climax. The city wakes up
at dawn meanwhile Victor wanders on the road.
Radio Vanishing Point is the frequency of the film.