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There's a teaser trailer for and twelve stills from Michele Soavi's Arrivederci amore, ciao on the subsite for the movie on Elemedia S.p.A.'s KataWeb site.
As was previously reported here and there on ScreenAnarchy, 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 scheduled to release Arrivederci amore, ciao theatrically in Italy on February 24th. A series of public previews of the movie, in six Italian cities for one night each, is being held until February 23rd; it began on February 14th.
Here's a synopsis for Arrivederci amore, ciao from the website of the Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive e Multimediali (ANICA): "December 1989: the Berlin Wall comes down. The news reaches a guerrilla outpost lost in a Central American jungle. Luca and Giorgio, a pair of Italian fugitives hear it. Left-wing terrorists, they have a life sentence hanging over their heads for a bomb[ing] that killed an innocent victim. Luca understands that the guerrillas will soon put away their arms too. But with nowhere to go, nothing else to do, he has no intention of giving up the fight. Giorgio has no opinion, no more beliefs. All he wants is to be a normal person. And so he cold bloodedly accepts the order of Commander Cayetano, who wants Luca the troublemaker out of the way. Giorgio kills his comrade with a pistol shot as the radio crackles out an old pop song by Caterina Caselli, ['Insieme a te non ci sto più' - which ends with the line 'Arrivederci amore ciao...']. That cynical execution is [his] return ticket home...."
Here's a synopsis for Arrivederci amore, ciao from the website of the international sales agent for the movie, Wild Bunch Sales Limited: "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."
Arrivederci amore, ciao teaser trailer (streaming Windows Media)
KataWeb: Arrivederci amore, ciao multimedia (w/ 12 stills)
GOMORRAHY.com: Arrivederci amore, ciao poster (100 KB JPEG)
MakingOfEuropa.net: "Arrivederci amore, ciao Backstage" (downloadable 1.5 MB WMV file)
MakingOfEuropa.net: Arrivederci amore, ciao
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #4 (384 KB JPEG - viewer discretion is advised)
Wild Bunch: Arrivederci amore, ciao still #5 (416 KB JPEG)
