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Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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The Other Half
2009 0h 11m IT
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6.5
SOLID
★6.5TMDB · 5
Drama
Synopsis
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It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs to attend the wedding of her granddaughter.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Piera Degli Esposti
Gina
Cosimo Cinieri
Giacomo
Anna Ferruzzo
Matilde
Gianni Lillo
Raffaele
Ippolito Chiariello
Barman
Tiziana Schiavarellli
Brigida
Pasquale Santoro
Proprietario del ristorante
Pietro Ciciriello
Prete
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Pippo Mezzapesa
- Writers
- Antonella Gaeta, Antonella Gaeta, Pippo Mezzapesa
- Languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
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The take
Pippo Mezzapesa directs. Michele D'Attanasio behind the camera. Clelio Benevento cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Italy. Dialogue in Italian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 17 years ago.
- 3Directed by Pippo Mezzapesa, shot by Michele D'Attanasio. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Editor Clelio Benevento shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 5Piera Degli Esposti and Cosimo Cinieri and Anna Ferruzzo carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt1566026 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Michele D'Attanasio
- Editing
- Clelio Benevento
- Production design
- Luigi Conte
- Costume design
- Dalila Suglia
- Makeup / hair
- Arianna Lumare
- Runtime
- 11 min · 0h 11m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- IT
Also by
Pippo Mezzapesa
Community reviews
What people are saying
- CinemaSerf★ 7/10
I've always felt that the prospect of getting old or infirm and being confined to a care home quite horrifying, however well meaning your cumpulsory attendance is being enforced. Here, we meet the elderly “Gina” (Piera Degli Esposti) who's in a similar situation and whose daughters think she ought to stay put and not attend the wedding of her grand-daughter. She plays their game until they have gone, but then in cahoots with the kindly janitor (Gianni Lilli) manages to escape and make for the venue. Snag? Well she isn't entirely sure which venue she is supposed to be going to, and the first nuptials she attends in church isn't the the right one. Nor is the next, nor the next. Now a little in despair, she alights on “Giacomo” (Cosimo Cinieri) and his dog who offers to drive her around the locale in the fairly forlorn hope that they might stumble upon the actual ceremony. Along the way, both of them begin to enjoy each other's company and realise that just because both of them are septagenarians, their lives are far from over. This is actually quite a funny travelogue of Italian wedding venues as they embark on their trek, but it still points out clearly that there is a tendency to consign our older relatives to establishments that may well provide them with some comforts and security, but that merely ensure they die of boredom long before any illness takes it's toll. With a glint in both of their eyes, this delivers an amiable ten minutes of defiance.
Production companies
Who made it
perFiducia
IT
Key crew
- Makeup ArtistArianna Lumare
- Costume DesignDalila Suglia
- VFX SupervisorRodolfo Migliari
- Production DesignLuigi Conte
- EditorClelio Benevento
- Delegated ProducerAndrea De Micheli
- PresenterPaolo Sorrentino
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2009-12-03
