EXCLUSIVE: Italian filmmaking duo Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino caught some buzz with their 2017 feature Crater . The duo are now back with Luce , a new feature set to debut at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The film’s synopsis reads: A bleak winter in a cold and rainy Southern Italy: A woman in her early twenties works in an alienating job in a leather factory and feels the need to fill an absence in her life.
One day on the beach, she has a sudden inspiration, and from that moment on her life also becomes someone else’s. A voice on her cellphone becomes a tenuous line between her desires, her imagination, and the world around her. “With Luce , we have returned to themes dear to us such as family and work,” Luzi and Bellino said in a statement.
“Trying to stay true to our thoughts regarding our current reality and the power of the image, our convictions on the fragile boundaries of the true and the false. The pair added: “ Luce is a role-playing game for us. A story of skin, voices, and fatigue, where everything is real but not everything is true.
” Italian actress Marianna Fontana is the film’s lead. Luzi and Bellino describe Fontana as “the heart of the film” and “the face around which the story revolves.” Fontana made her screen debut in 2016 in Indivisible , directed by Edoardo De Angelis, for which she was nominated for a David di Donatello and a Globo d’Oro for Best Actress.
The following year, she starred in Capri-Revolution , directed an.