Michele Soavi's ARRIVEDERCI AMORE, CIAO, starring Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, C
Michele Soavi's latest movie is Arrivederci amore, ciao (which I first wrote about on Mobius Home Video Forum over 3 1/2 years ago). There are half a dozen stills from it on the website of the international sales agent for it, Wild Bunch Sales Limited. Also, there is behind-the-scenes footage from it, and interviews in Italian with some of its cast and crew, on MakingOfEuropa.net.
The screenplay for Arrivederci amore, ciao was written by Soavi, Marco Colli, Franco Ferrini, Heidrun Schleef, and Gino Ventriglia, based on the eponymous novel by Massimo Carlotto. The movie stars Alessio Boni as Giorgio Pellegrini, Michele Placido as Anedda, Isabella Ferrari as Flora, Carlo Cecchi as Brianese, and Alina Nedelea as Roberta.
Mikado Film S.p.A. is tentatively scheduled to release Arrivederci amore, ciao theatrically in Italy on February 24th.
Below is a synopsis for Arrivederci amore, ciao from the Wild Bunch website.
Giorgio, a left-wing idealist-turned-terrorist, returns to Italy from exile in Central America with one goal - to establish a life of comfortable bourgeois respectability. A normal life. All idealistic fervour and political conviction destroyed during his horror-filled years on the run, Giorgio's obsessive desire for this normal life is limitless, his methods utterly ruthless.
Blackmailing former comrades buys him a reduced jail sentence, but once on the outside, despite himself, he sinks unavoidably and ever-deeper into a vortex of violence and crime from which there seems to be no escape.
Larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, easy dirty money... Giorgio hesitates briefly, then abandons himself to the corruption that surrounds him. A relentless machine, he flourishes. In partnership with Anedda, a crooked and cynical special services agent in possession of evidence that could put him away forever, he takes on increasingly dangerous criminal jobs. Blood starts flowing, bodies start piling up around him. A major heist scores Giorgio some serious money. Enough to pay Anedda off, enough to start over again, enough to buy the dream that has never stopped haunting him.
But for Giorgio, the past is never dead. It's not even past.
Based on the best-selling novel and graphic novel by Massimo Carlotto, brutal, chilling, utterly compelling, Michele Soavi's Arrivederci amore, ciao is the gripping story of one man's battle against destiny, his struggle to escape from himself and his own black history of violence.
VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
MakingOfEuropa.net: "Arrivederci amore, ciao Backstage" (downloadable 1.5 MB WMV file)
MakingOfEuropa.net: Arrivederci amore, ciao
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #1 (68 KB GIF)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #2 (56 KB GIF)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #3 (52 KB GIF)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #4 (60 KB GIF)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #4 (384 KB JPEG)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #5 (56 KB GIF)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #5 (416 KB JPEG)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #6 (52 KB GIF)
