All About You ( Tutto parla di te )

All About You (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Tutto parla di te
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
86 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Alina Marazzi

Written By:
Alina Marazzi
Gaia Giani

Actors:
Charlotte Rampling ..... Pauline
Elena Radonicich ..... Emma
Maria Grazia Mandruzzato ..... Angela Gualtieri
Valerio Binasco ..... Valerio
Alice Torriani ..... Daniela
Marta Lina Comerio ..... Anita
Emiliano Audisio ..... Tommaso
Eurydice El-Etr
Alice Lussiana Parente

Synopsis:

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt's apartment in town. In Turin Pauline contacts Dr. Angela Gualtieri, a psychologist whom she had met abroad some time before; Angela runs a maternity centre, the Melograno, a support centre where both mothers to be and young mothers with post natal depression seek help. At the Melograno they are constantly short of help, that's why Angela asks Pauline to give her a hand in setting up an in-house archive collecting different material relating to maternity: video interviews to new mothers, mothers diaries, photo portraits of mother and child. Pauline accepts and starts her work plunging deep in an emotional material that touches her strongly: the controversial feelings experienced by women in their relation with the child.

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt's apartment in town. In Turin Pauline contacts Dr. Angela Gualtieri, a psychologist whom she had met abroad some time before; Angela runs a maternity centre, the Melograno, a support centre where both mothers to be and young mothers with post natal depression seek help. At the Melograno they are constantly short of help, that's why Angela asks Pauline to give her a hand in setting up an in-house archive collecting different material relating to maternity: video interviews to new mothers, mothers diaries, photo portraits of mother and child. Pauline accepts and starts her work plunging deep in an emotional material that touches her strongly: the controversial feelings experienced by women in their relation with the child. Pauline divides up her time between work at Melograno and trying to find her own space at her home, her aunt's apartment, a place that reconnects her strongly with her forgotten past. The place is full of traces of Pauline's family history, and amongst the many objects, Pauline finds some photographs and listens to some sound recordings that unsettle her. At Melograno Pauline meets Emma, a young mother, formerly a dancer, who is in strong conflict with her new role as a mother; she feels unattached to her baby and depressed, reason why she seeks help at the centre. Emma's ways are brusque and distant, so much centred on herself and her malaise. But Emma attracts Pauline, she reminds her of someone, and the two develop a special relationship. While at work classifying the Melograno archive material, Pauline finds Emma's diary written during pregnancy; Pauline starts to read and gets to know Emma more intimately. One night Emma leaves a worrying message on the answering machine at Melograno: her baby has fallen… got hurt…she doesn't know what to do. She's in panic, asks for help. The following morning Pauline finds the message; she immediately calls back Emma, tries to find her, but in vain. Pauline goes to look for her at her flat, where there's no trace of her but where she meets Emma's boyfriend Tommaso; she then looks for her at the theatre where she used to dance, and finally at the house on the lake where Emma may have gone with her baby. The relation with Emma will develop in an intriguing mirror-like exchange between the two women, and will encourage Pauline to undertake a personal investigation on the most complex and dramatic aspects of motherhood, a quest that will face her with her tragic and mysterious past and force her to come to terms with it.

Something in her past has kept Pauline (Rampling) away from Turin, but now she's back and working on a research project about postpartum depression. At a maternity center, she becomes intrigued by Emma (Elena Radonicich), a dancer resentful of the way her baby has completely changed her life. Pauline tries to befriend the angry young woman, finally revealing her own family history 10 minutes before the finale. Radonicich's projection of tension overdoes the Method acting shtick, feeling especially false when juxtaposed with authentic interviews. Memories visualized in various formats and some interesting art photos lend an impressionistic air, hinting at something more intriguing than what's onscreen.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 07 February, 2014.

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