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Five seconds by Paolo Virzì: plot, cast, Mastandrea

(askanews) – There is deep pain, the theme of fatherhood, life that puts a strain on it, but there are also hope and moments of joy, with the idea that just as old vineyards if well cared for can produce good wine again, there can be a rebirth. It’s bittersweet Five secondsthe new film by Paolo Virzì premiered at the (Grand Public section), in theaters from October 30th.

Paolo Virzì: «You can’t help but try to make the two things coexist, pain and trust, it’s a story that unravels slowly and in a miserable way with a grumpy guy whose details or history at the beginning we don’t know».

The man in question is Valerio Mastandrea retreated alone to the stables of a ruined villa; a man tried by suffering who then opens up, little by little, after an initial clash, to a group of boys who illegally occupy the estate, transformed into a sort of municipality, to take care of the abandoned countryside, among which there is a sunny, pregnant countess. «It is told how this apparently run-down creature reactivates, at first in a neurotic, anxious form, because others bother him, because he can’t stand intrusions, because he would like to be alone, but then this encounter generates relationships, and probably also a form of repair».

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: «I rediscovered Virzì’s universe»

In the background a difficult family affair, a serious loss and a woman who has always been by his side, in her own way, a little outside the lines, played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: «I have rediscovered Paolo’s universe which every time seems organic to me, it seems like a dress that feels good, but which also forces me to make a small effort that I don’t always make in life, which is to put myself in contact with joy, with light, with gratitude towards life».

Valerio Mastandrea: «One of my most beautiful and complex characters»

And Valerio Mastandrea added: «For a protagonist who has before him the possibility of a complete turn inside his own interiority, inside his own existence like this… he was a character to be seasoned with everything, in short, as an actor I even struggle to say it but he is one of the most beautiful and most complex characters to face, I really couldn’t wait, this is something he knows».

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