Completed - FRENCH, ITALIAN - Drama - 107 minutes
La Sapienza tells the story of the journey undertaken byParisian architect Alexandre. A film charged with feeling and set in the locations that have granted Italy its worldwide reputation as an open air museum.
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Eugène GREEN Cast : Fabrizio RONGIONE, Christelle PROT LANDMAN, Ludovico SUCCIO, Arianna NASTRO Producer(s) : Martine DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE (Mact Productions), Alessandro BORRELLI (La Sarraz Pictures)
At 50, Swiss architect Alexandre Schmidt has had a brilliant career, but is starting to have doubts about the meaning of his work. For her part, his wife Aliénor has similar issues about her own profession as a behavioral specialist with the under-privileged. Yet a wall of silence exists between the two of them. Wanting to pursue a long cherished desire to write about Francesco Borromini, the Baroque architect, Alexandre decides to go to Ticino then Rome and Aliénor chooses to accompany him. In Stresa, where they plan to spend a few days, the couple meets two adolescents, a brother and a sister. The boy is about to begin studying architecture, and the girl is suffering from a strange nervous illness. Aliénor decides to stay to look after the girl and offers to pay for the boy to take a research trip, which means that Alexandre is obliged to take him with him to Rome.The film has been produced by Martine DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE (Mact Productions) and Alessandro BORRELLI (La Sarraz Pictures)
Country(ies) : FRANCE, ITALY
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