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Premiere: Me and You (Io e Te) by Bernardo Bertolucci
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Bernardo Bertolucci is back with "Me and You" (Io e Te) after an absence of ten years.
It is a great pleasure to rediscover the name of Bernardo Bertolucci in the movies charts once more. After an absence of ten years, due to health problems, the renowned film director shows us once again that he knows how to make good cinema, although it has been in a wheelchair.
Returning to one of his recurrent themes, the youth, and based on a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, Bertolucci tells the story of Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo), a shy introverted 14 year old boy who decides to spend a few days in a basement while his family thinks he is skiing with the school. By locking himself, he tries to get away from his daily conflicts, to flee from his family and the bothersome classmates and to dream of his own fantasies. But, in the most unexpected moment, his nine years older sister Olivia (Tea Falco) arrives. She is addicted to drugs and is dragging a weighty bundle full of problems.
The communication they achieve to create and Olivia's vitality, as well as the lack of affection she suffers, will make the boy returns to the real world and starts to come out from his reverie.
The film is a drama about the arrival of maturity and its risks for two young people, their real lust for life and their struggles against difficulties. Bertolucci knows how to make the best of these two new actors, whose casting was not easy. But they play their characters brilliantly and make them totally credible.
Although the movie could have been highly claustrophobic and oppressive, the Italian director succeeds to create an atmosphere that breathes vitality and energy and becomes another protagonist of the story.
Texts: Núria Farré. facebook@cinemaperaestudiants.cat
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