Gianni Castagnoli: Night and Day ( Gianni Castagnoli : La Nott'e'l giorno / Valentino Moon / Viaggi, prima parte / Roma: le stanze / Milano: le stanze )

Gianni Castagnoli: Night and Day (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Gianni Castagnoli : La Nott'e'l giorno / Valentino Moon / Viaggi, prima parte / Roma: le stanze / Milano: le stanze
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
132 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1973-1976 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Gianni Castagnoli

Synopsis:

Night 'n' Day: First of all, the music. The music in Night and Day by Gianni Castaglioni is in the repetitive rhythm of the images, usually very rapid (with some suddenly slowed down, figements, yet with a fiery intensity). And as each shot, (brief like those of Mekas or Brakhage), moves,; as the camera moves to the nervous rhythm of a wrist, the music becomes a sort of Free Jazz - and not only visually, since the soundtrack is composed of piano frenzies à la Elton John. The extreme close-ups that sprinkle this sort of intimate journal and which are among the most admirable - as well as the most rapid - ever made in cinema, don't float adrift like the film's music through a hundred flowing veins. Valentino Moon: Castagnoli is the auteur of Valentino Moon, a little Italian gem (is it Rome, is it Venice?) : streets, people, a market, all very quickly and every three seconds (yes it's Rome and it's a baroque film by Bernini), a dancing 'Pierrot'. Pachelbel's Canon adds to the jubilation. Jouhandeau could have whispered a title to Castagnoli : 'Life should be a celebration.

Castagnoli comes 'after the underground' and we can say that he experiments as he breathes, since for him, 'the man with the camera' is neither an exception nor a metaphor. The most remarkable element of his films is, in fact, the sense of time and light, in other words, the sense of the body that with the camera transcribes, documents and lives its biological rhythms.' - Adriano Aprà 'The extreme close-up portraits that dot this sort of diary, and which are among the most admirable - although the fastest - that have ever been made in cinema, do not float adrift like gratuitous pieces of bravura, but are intimately justified, linked to the film's music by a hundred fluid veins. » - Dominique Noguez «»La Nott'e'l giorno» is the most meticulously and masterfully edited film in all of Italian cinema, in a grid of connections between forms, lights, gestures, atmospheres and representations of vibrations captured in different times and places.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 21 March, 2025.