Luca Lucini is shooting Le mie ragazze di carta
- The new comedy by the director of Three Steps Over Heaven recounts two decisive moments in the lives of three adolescents, based on a screenplay which scooped the Solinas Prize
Filming kicked off this week on Luca Lucini’s new film Le mie ragazze di carta [+see also:
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Inspired by an idea by Mauro Spinelli and Luca Lucini, the screenplay was penned by Luca Lucini, Mauro Spinelli, Marta Storti and Ilaria Storti, and subsequently earned itself the Leo Benvenuti Solinas Prize for Best Comedy Screenplay. It’s the end of the 1970s in the Treviso region, at a time when the rapid growth of cities is also affecting the Bottacin family, composed of Primo, Anna and Tiberio. For them, and for young Tiberio in particular, the change from a country life to an urban setting will be a somewhat tumultuous one. The film speaks of a time of great social and economic transformation, where even movie theatres –places where local communities come together – are forced to fall back on X-rated films in a bid to avoid collapse.
The cast of Le mie ragazze di carta includes Maya Sansa (seen last year in Lasciami andare [+see also:
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The film enjoys the support of the Veneto Film Commission, with the shoot set to last seven weeks in total.
(Translated from Italian)
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