Three Step Dancing ( Ballo a tre passi ) ( Three-Step Dance )

Three Step Dancing (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ballo a tre passi
Alternate Title: Three-Step Dance
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Salvatore Mereu

Written By:
Salvatore Mereu

Actors:
Yaël Abecassis
Michele Carboni
Caroline Ducey

Synopsis:

To appreciate Salvatore Mereu's handsome, slowly unfolding film, set in contemporary Sardinia, be prepared for a movie that plunks you into a rural, primitive environment with a much slower metabolism than the nerve-jangling world of instant communications. Jets may roar overhead, and glamorous international nomads take the sun at a beachfront resort. But over most of the Sardinia's beautiful, rugged landscape, life goes on pretty much as it always has, and most the characters seem barely cognizant of creeping globalization. Consisting of four, loosely connected vignettes, each set in a different season, 'Three Step Dancing' parachutes you in to this world and demands that you to fend for yourself. At its most absorbing, the movie has the pace and patient, nonjudgmental gaze of a Taviani Brothers epic that slows time and observes the procession of life without comment.

Directed by Salvatore Mereu, Ballo A Tre Passi (Three-Step Dance) takes place over the four seasons, emphasizing issues of tradition versus modern times and the resulting isolation and lack of proper communication. In the first season -- spring -- a group of young boys travels to the ocean for the first time, while summer follows Michele (Michele Carboni), a shepherd whose only non-work-related activity is frequenting a seaside restaurant, where he meets a French woman Caroline Ducey, who is intrigued by Michele's naïveté. Autumn centers around Francesca (Yael Abecassis), a nun who is leaving the security of convent life in order to attend her sisters wedding, while winter finds the elderly Giorgio (Giampaolo Loddo) at the same wedding, struck by the differences between town and country life.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 25 July, 2008.

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