Wine Within ( Vinodentro )

Wine Within (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vinodentro
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani

Written By:
Heidrun Schleef
Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani

Actors:
Vincenzo Amato ..... Giovanni
Erika Blanc ..... Mamma commissario
Stefano Cassetti ..... Luca
Gioele Dix ..... Direttore Bibenda
Veronica Gentili ..... Miriam Poggiolini
Paolo Giovannucci ..... Lorenzo Lorenzi
Annalena Lombardi ..... Matteo
Gianmaria Martini ..... Adele
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ..... Commissario
Pietro Sermonti ..... Marco
Franco Trevisi ..... Donna misteriosa
Daniela Virgilio ..... Vescovo
Giovanni Visentin ..... Professore
Lambert Wilson ..... Panuzzo
Vincenzo Zampa

Synopsis:

It all started with the first wine sip Giovanni Cuttin had in his life. A Marzemino, a wine mentioned by Lorenzo da Ponte in his libretto for Mozart's Don Giovanni. Since then, the shy clerk becomes the bank director, a lady-killer and the most revered wine expert in Italy. But soon he will be charged for his wife's murder. Being grilled by Inspector Sanfelice, Giovanni reflects on the last 3 years of his life, dominated by an only mad passion: wine. Gradually the investigation becomes more and more caught between the boundaries of reality and its dreamlike counterpart. What if Giovanni, like Faust, met a diabolic force that made his life very special, only to settle the score later?

The actual drama begins with Giovanni Cuttin's first sip of wine, which changes his carrier, his marriage, and his attitude to life in general. In a Faust-like setting, the main character sells his soul to a fiendish-wine entity who enables him to get a promotion, become a Don Juan and an expert in wine tasting. What interferes with his newly accomplished life is the mysterious death of his wife, which seems to frame him as the culprit. The investigations of police officer Sanfelice will allow Giovanni to retrace his personal story, that sucked him in the deepest abyss of the human soul. Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani's movie is a peculiar cinematic product that attempts to coalesce onirism with dramedy. The actors per se wouldn't be bad, if they hadn't been so appallingly directed. Vincenzo Amato, Pietro Sermonti, Daniela Virgilio, Lambert Wilson, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, are all established in the field, and can boast awards, as well as starring in successful movies. Nonetheless their talent gets swept away in a poor noir that tries to intertwine humour along the way. Wine could have been a great narrative tool to experiment genres, techniques, and effects. Besides the dream-like plot that hangs betwixt reality and ephemeral, this could have been the chance to experiment with visuals too. None of this happens. Wine seems to be the excuse for the director to flaunt he's a connoisseur. One trait that is noteworthy though, is the music score, composed by Italy's most prominent jazz musician, Paolo Fresu. Unfortunately his enchanting music doesn't suffice to end this review on a more positive 'note.'

A pretentiously inebriating film is what could define 'Vinodentro' (i.e. Wine Within).

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 November, 2015.

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