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Rosa pietra stella

Rose Stone Star
Online Screening
Thursday, May 26, 2022
6:00 pm
$14.00
$10 SDIFF Members | $7 Students & Military
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Credits

Year
2019
DIRECTED BY
Marcello Sannino
Screenplay
Marcello Sannino, Giorgio Caruso, Guido Lombardi
Editing
Giogiò Franchini
Cinematography
Alessandro Abate
Music
Riccardo Veno
Cast
Ivana Lotito, Ludovica Nasti, Fabrizio Rongione, Imma Piro, Valentina Curatoli, Francesca Romana Bergamo, Anna Redi, Gigi Savoia, Pietro Juliano, David Power, Rosy Franzese
Producer
Production
Parallelo 41, Bronx Film, PFA Films, Rai Cinema
World Sales
Rai Com

Review

Italian cinema still brings us beautiful, contemporary Neorealist films. Rosa Pietra Stella is the lively fiction feature debut from documentary director Marcello Sannino. The protagonist is 30-year-old Carmela (the title of the film refers to a line from a song with the same title: “Rose, rock, star”), who scrapes together a living doing a range of odd jobs. Her situation becomes more complicated when a deal to provide visas to illegal migrants through a lawyer goes badly wrong, leading to her being evicted from her home along with her mother and her eleven-year-old daughter, Maria. The story portrays everyday life and survival in Portici, the old, multicultural part of Naples where Sannino himself grew up. With a superb eye for local details and a great cast, he tells a nuanced, unsentimental, empathetic tale.


In Italian and Neapolitan with English subtitles. Available only in the US.

Check out our video analysis by our late SDIFF President, Victor Laruccia.


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