Based on the homonym novel by Edoardo Nesitonight on first TV it airs at 9.20pm on Rai 2 My shadow is yours. Interpreted by Marco Giallinithe film tells the story of a friendship between a solitary writer and a young graduate without too many prospects.
My shadow is yoursthe plot of the movie
Vittorio Vezzosi (Giallini) is one gruff writer famous for having written a cult novel published 25 years earlier. Under the viral push of an influencer who fell in love with the book, the desire for a sequel is growing. However, there is help to help him Emiliano known as “Zapata” (Giuseppe Maggio), sent to encourage Vittorio from his university advisor. A golden opportunity for the boy, given that to earn a little money he is forced to give Latin and Greek lessons, while Allegra, his girlfriend Allegra (Anna Manuelli), is pushing for her to find a real job.
Emiliano also organizes a conference on the writer at the festival of the Vintage Book of Milan. During the journey, aboard an old Jeep, the two, very different in character, clash from the first minutes. Between daring episodes and unexpected meeting points, the odd couple of dealing with the gap that separates their respective generations. That of the sixty-year-olds, lost between nostalgia and the inability to reinvent themselves, and that of the twenty-year-olds, from whom the dream of a happy future has been “stolen”.
However, they later manage to make inroads into each other, with Emiliano attracted by Vittorio’s nostalgic world – which he doesn’t even get angry with when he discovers that Vittorio said yes to the trip just to see him again an old love: Milena (Isabella Ferrari).
A road movie that tells the story of two generations compared
Directed by Eugenio Cappuccio, My shadow is yours – quote from the novel Under the volcano by Malcolm Lowry – is a film that, despite some uncertainties, works and intelligently addresses the gap between two generations.
The young Emiliano in fact represents youthful anger of the economic crisis, while Vittorio – a mix between Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway – is everything that Emiliano is not: self-confident and motivated, but without the right direction. Two convincing characterizations, net of some stereotypes, that animate a film that at times reminds us Overtaking by Dino Risi but which cannot help but also make you think of Discovering Forrester di Gus Van Sant.
Alternating comic moments with scenes of great intensity intimate, My shadow is yours relies heavily on Marco Giallini’s interpretation which plays, once again, a grumpy and arrogant character (but soft-hearted) as in Perfect strangers o The Place. The Roman actor, however, gives interesting nuances to his character given that, beneath the armour, Vittorio reveals himself a sensitive and fragile man. Reflecting a typical attitude of Italians of his generationperhaps crushed by the sense of guilt for not having managed to change the world.
Anna Manuelli, Marco Giallini, Giuseppe Maggio and Isabella Ferrari in “My shadow is yours”. (01 Distribution)
Marco Giallini on the set of the new season of Rocco Schiavone
Looking forward to seeing it again soon on Netflix ACAB The series – taken from the film of the same name by Stefano Sollima – the time has come for the Roman actor to take on the role of his most famous character. That is to say the gruff deputy commissioner Rocco Schiavone with the cigarette always lit, the beloved dog at his side and the insurmountable mourning for the death of his wife.
In fact, a few days ago, Giallini started filming of the sixth season of the drama in Piedmont of Rai 2, taken from the novels by Antonio Manzini published by Sellerio. The set will then move to Val d’Aostawhere most of the filming of all seasons took place, and the probable broadcast will be next winter.
In the meantime, Rocco Schiavone And also successfully landed on American platforms with the title Ice cold murders and the rights were also purchased in France.
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