ITALY
2015 / WORLD PREMIERE
14’ – IN ITALIAN
Synopsis
Chickenpox is a very small thing if you’re young. But if you’re a grown-up it can be very dangerous. When Mommy finds out, she starts worrying about Carlo, her son, who still isn’t sick. He’s growing fast, something must soon be done. She needs to find a way to ‘make him’ sick. But does Daddy agree?
Trailer
DIRECTOR: Fulvio Risuleo
PRODUCTION: Donatello Della Pepa - Loretta Isotton - Fulvio Risuleo
SCREENPLAY: Fulvio Risuleo
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Juri Fantigrossi
EDITING: Ilenia Zincone
SOUND: Vincenzo Santo
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Maria Vittoria Colicchio
MUSIC: Virginia Quaranta
CAST:
Giordana Morandini
Edoardo Pesce
Enea De Angelis
PRODUCTION
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Donatello Della Pepa
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It’s no use to have read Nietzsche to figure out that illness is but a point of vue on health itself. Their child’s sound health is the main concern for the parents and Varicella operates a subtle turnaround all along an impressive tangle of dialogues that shake off domestic paranoia and social unrest. Both a storyteller and a counterfeiter, Fulvio Risuleo singles out the one true disease, which is mamma’s hyper-motherhood. The apparently naturalistic direction grows more and more stylized, until the last frame seems to pertain to the horror genre: the horror of poisonous ideas.
By Fabien Gaffez
