Director’s note:
I wanted to make a simple film, light and airy, as Simone would have liked it.
I wanted to shoot it here, near home, so as not to lose sight of Simone when I glimpsed her just over there, so close. Here, amidst the woods and vineyards of the Serra d'Ivrea, where Adriano Olivetti used to come cycling. It was here that Olivetti decided to translate Simone Weil, for the first time in the world, and make her work a manual for workers relations. This was considered by all a veritable laboratory in durable development.
I wanted to make a film filled with light for our dark times, Simone having taught me that the ultimate essence of courage was hope.
This was the first time I had ever thought of making a period film. And I would not have done so if it had not been a relevant film. Relevant also to that period when this very young woman, a professor of philosophy, stayed at a farmhouse in the Ardèche with Gustave Thibon and his wife. The France of Vichy, and the Italy of today. That is, a historic moment when we are not quite sure what will happen to those ideolo- gies whose limits we have seen, though we have not seen how to develop them dif- ferently.
A love story in which love is not attachment, but illumination.
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Emanuela Piovano is an author, director, producer and, most recently, distributor. She was born in the mid-sixties in Turin where she graduated in Film History and Criticism. Piovano worked for several years for Paolo Gobetti’s ARCHIVIONAZIONAL CINEMATOGRAFICO DELLA RESISTENZA, RAI, and the film journal IL NUOVO SPETTATORE. She is the founder of CAMERA WOMAN, KITCHENFILM and SUNNY SIDE. The latter two are commercial firms involved in cultural products, and the first is a non-profit organization for women in film. Emanuela Piovano lives in Rome where she heads Kitchenfilm. The independent film production company recently became fully equipped for editing features.
Opere per il Cinema come regista:
1990 Le Rose Blu
1992 L’aria in testa
1997 Le Complici
2003 Amorfù
2009 Le Stelle inquiete
Opere per il Cinema e la Televisione come produttrice:
1983 Processo a Caterina Ross
1995 Parole Incrociate
1996 La Grande Dea Madre
Opere per il Cinema e la Televisione come distributrice:
2006 Whisky
2007 Caramel
2009 A Via Lactea
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