When the Night
(Original Italian: Quando la notte)
Film poster
Directed byCristina Comencini
Screenplay by
  • Cristina Comencini
  • Doriana Leondeff
Based onQuando la notte
by Cristina Comencini
Produced by
  • Marco Chimenz
  • Giovanni Stabilini
  • Riccardo Tozzi
  • Exec. producers:
  • Fabio Massimo Cacciatori
  • Franco Bevione
  • Matteo De Laurentiis
  • Gina Gardini
Starring
CinematographyItalo Petriccione
Edited byFrancesca Calvelli
Music byAndrea Farri
Production
companies
  • Cattleya
  • Rai Cinema
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 7 September 2011 (2011-09-07) (Venice)
  • 28 October 2011 (2011-10-28) (Italian theatrical)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

When the Night (Original Italian: Quando la notte) is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Cristina Comencini, and based upon Comencini's novel of the same title.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

Marina (Claudia Pandolfi) is a young woman attempting to be a good mother to her two-year-old son. She decides to spend the summer in the mountains, in the hope that the change will improve her child's sleeping habits. She rents an apartment from Manfred (Filippo Timi), a man who is distrustful of women. The two generally avoid each other until an unfortunate event of the boy having a fall forces them together. Fifteen years later, Marina returns to the mountain to find Manfred to rekindle the desire she had felt, but upon which she had not acted.

Cast

Production

The film project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010,[5] casting was performed in June 2010,[6] and pre-production began in July 2010.[7] Filming began on 23 August 2010, at locations in Macugnaga, a mountain village in the very northern part of the Piedmont region in Italy.[7] Certain scenes shot on the slopes of Monte Rosa, were filmed at high altitude and during -30 degree snowstorms.[8] The project completed filming and entered post production in May 2011.[9]

Release

The film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September,[10][11][12] following in October at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival,[13] the Haifa International Film Festival,[14] the Marrakech International Film Festival,[15] and the London Film Festival,[16] before its theatrical release 28 October 2011 in Italy.[17]

Due to its content, there had been a restriction placed on the film on 26 October, banning it from being seen by children under 14 . After an appeal by Cattleya, the restriction was lifted on the 27th.[18][19]

It screened in January 2012, at Palm Springs International Film Festival,[20] in March 2012 at the Bari International Film Festival,[21][22] in April 2012, at the Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay,[15] and is slated to screen in May 2012, at the Seattle International Film Festival.[23]

Recognition

Awards and nominations

The received a Golden Lion nomination at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival, and a Golden Anchor Award nomination at the 2011 Haifa International Film Festival.[24] At the Bari International Film Festival in March 2012, Claudia Pandolfi won the 'Anna Magnani Award for Best Actress' for her role as Marina.[25]

Critical response

Monsters & Critics reported that the drama film produced unintended laughter from its audience at the Venice Film Festival when some of the verbal interaction between the characters of Marina and Manfred were misinterpreted by viewers.[3] In defending her film after its screening, writer/director Comencini stated, "Alcuni momenti della storia sono emozionanti, e non sempre ai festival l'emozione è accettata. Ci vuole coraggio, ad avere emozione" (Emotions are not always accepted at festivals. In this film there are two or three very emotional moments and courage is needed to feel emotions). She offered that while it might be acceptable to insult a film when it was over, doing so during a screening is a form of violence that negatively affects the perceptions of other viewers.[26] Último Segundo offered that the it was surprising that a 55-year-old filmmaker could write such a childish screenplay.[27] Variety panned the film for its lack of proper character development by writing of the two leads "The script doesn't bother to give her [Marina] a career or background, other family or friends. She's not in her 20s, but it seems she's never known anyone to have a baby before. If Marina is a cipher, Manfred is given too much of a backstory, allowing Comencini to indulge in the most facile pop psychology profiling."[2] They also make note of Comencini treating the situations "as wisdom from the skies"[2] when the commonplace events surrounding a child sometimes injuring himself were, for most viewers, "hardly a revelation".[2] The also noted problems in its "laughable dialogue" being too overly ernest.[2] Mymovies.it wrote that the novel was betrayed by the film in that Comencini failed to create a proper screenplay from her book, itself judged to be "pieno di una tensione che non si placa mai, come in certi amori che fanno male" (full of tension that never subsides, as in certain loves that hurt).[17]

Offering a positive view toward the film's screening at the London Film Festival, the British Film Institute wrote that Claudia Pandolfi was convincing, the Alpine location was a "starkly beautiful but wild and dangerous backdrop that is a notable feature of the film's atmosphere and impact", and that the film was "a tour de force adult melodrama that recalls both David Lean's Passionate Friends and Ulu Grosbard's Falling In Love but is distinct from both."[28]

References

  1. ↑ MFinos, Arianna (29 July 2011). ""Quando la notte", il lato oscuro della maternità". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Weissberg, Jay (7 September 2011). "review: When the Night". Variety. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Italian film triggers unintended laughter at Venice Film Festival". Monsters & Critics. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 155. ISBN 978-1908215017.
  5. ↑ "Della Casa e Fausto Brizzi lanciano Wild Side Torino". La Stampa (in Italian). 17 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "Domodossola: AAA cercasi attori e comparse". June 9, 2010 (in Italian). zipnews.it. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  7. 1 2 Sillo, Francesco. "Filippo Timi e Claudia Pandolfi per Quando la notte". June 17, 2010 (in Italian). zapster.it. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  8. ↑ ANSA (24 December 2010). "Comencini, set su Monte Rosa a -30 gradi". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  9. ↑ Macnab, Geoffrey (13 May 2011). "Night falls for Celluloid Dreams: Cristina Comencini film is in post". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "2011 Venice International Film Festival Lineup". pronetworks. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  11. ↑ "When the Night (Quando la notte): Venice Film Review". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  12. ↑ "Quando la notte". Vogue. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  13. ↑ "Quando anoitece (Quando la notte)" (in Portuguese). Festival do Rio. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  14. ↑ "Italian movies at Haifa's International Film Festival". Haifa International Film Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  15. 1 2 "When the Night". Film Italia. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  16. ↑ ""Quando la Notte" di Cristina Comencini vola a Londra, Rio e Haifa" (in Italian). Cinema Italiano. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  17. 1 2 Zappoli, Giancarlo. "Trasposizione cinematografica dell'autrice Cristina Comencini, che non riesce a prendere la giusta distanza dal suo romanzo" (in Italian). Mymovies.it. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  18. ↑ staff (27 October 2011). "Tolto divieto film Comencini, produzione plaude". Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  19. ↑ e-duesse (31 October 2011). "Revocata la censura per "Quando la notte"". CineSpettacolo (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  20. ↑ "festival screening". Palm Springs International Film Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  21. ↑ "BiFest Programma del 31 marzo". La Republica (in Italian). 7 May 2012.
  22. ↑ "BiFest 2012" (in Italian). Bari International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  23. ↑ "When the Night (Quando la notte)". Seattle International Film Festival. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  24. ↑ Brown, Hannah (22 October 2011). "A family affair". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
  25. ↑ "Bif&st 2012: "Io Sono Li" e "Là-Bas" vincono a Bari. Pandolfi e Piccoli migliori attori". Libero (in Italian). 30 March 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  26. ↑ Morgoglione, Claudia (9 September 2011). "Risate durante "Quando la notte"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  27. ↑ Morisawa, Mariane (7 September 2011). "Italiano "Quando la Notte" constrange com romance inverossímil". Último Segundo (in Portuguese).
  28. ↑ Wootton, Adrian. "When the Night". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
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