When the Night ( Quando la notte )

When the Night (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Quando la notte
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
117 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Cristina Comencini

Written By:
Cristina Comencini

Actors:
Filippo Timi ..... Manfred
Claudia Pandolfi ..... Marina
Thomas Trabacchi ..... Albert
Franco Trevisi ..... Gustav
Michela Cescon ..... Bianca
Denis Fasolo ..... Stefan
Manuela Mandracchia ..... Luna

Synopsis:

Marina is a young mother who takes a mountain vacation from her book-keeping job in the city, renting an apartment from Manfred above his own home. She brings her two year old son, the bane of her existence, but leaves her husband behind. Marina never wanted to be a mother and doesn't believe she can continue being one. She feels 'rivers of incandescent rage,' for her son, for her husband, for her life. She wants to work, to dance, to drink and flirt with men; she wants to get away from the family life in which she feels trapped. Marina refers to Manfred as 'the bumpkin,' and says he stinks of 'dirt and onions.' She wears make-up and dances alone at the lodge, and Manfred thinks she is a whorish fool. He likes tall, blonde women with large breasts, and she is small and dark, a city gypsy in a town of blue-eyed, fair-haired Lederhosen-wearing mountain people. They want nothing to do with each other. Yet a series of accidents intertwine their lives and engage them into a battle of will, and they struggle to dominate the other, as well as their own desire. Like the mountains, both Marina and Manfred are shrouded in mystery. Why did Luna leave Manfred? Why is Marina taking a vacation without her husband?

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.

When the Night traces the hesitant romance between a young mother failing to cope and a rough-hewn mountaineer she meets on vacation in the Alps.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 August, 2012.

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