BLUE EYES - OCCHI BLU (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
BLUE EYES - OCCHI
BLU
(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Director Michela Cescon
Music by Andrea Farri
Featuring Paolo Fresu & Luigi Piovano
Tormina
Festival - Italy - Uk - Usa Cinemas....
A lone robber, riding a different maxi
scooter each time, robs one bank and a jewelry store after another, squeaking
at great speed through the folds of Rome, between its ancient beauties and its
urban archaeologists, always managing to sow its pursuers and finally vanish
into nothingness.
The case is in the hands of a Roman
commissioner, true and cynical who, failing to get to the head of it, asks for
help from a friend of his Parisians, called the French, a former commissioner
famous for his psychological insight and for resolving dozens of impossible
cases. Everyone except for the death of their daughter, whose anniversary she
returns to the city every year. He will discover the identity of the robber, a
person who is as unsuspected as he is of great intelligence, with whom he engages
in a challenge with unpredictable consequences.
Statement By Michela Cescon, Director
“Blue
Eyes” experiments with genre in this personal rendition and tribute to the
French Polar film. It is light on dialogue, heavy on atmosphere, with
melancholy, romantic characters: two police chiefs, one robber, a scooter, a
young mechanic… and the city. Rome and the waves of traffic coursing through
its streets and the solitary, empty nights between Rome’s Pyramid, white as the
moon, and the Coliseum at dawn keeping watch over challenges and revenge.
There are no landscape shots. Each frame
tells the story through the emotions they elicit. Indoor shots are minimalist.
The architecture furnishes the places, playing with space and light. Much is
understood about each character as they move through these intentionally empty
spaces. The film was shot in wide-angle – typical of this genre – using
CinemaScope, which provides depth and makes it necessary to choose certain
points of view. In “Blue Eyes” we don’t need to see everything, just what helps
create the story. Cinema is also about what you choose not to show. The
photography is so “material” – emphasizing contrasts, details and distances –
you can almost touch it.
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