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Moths - Falene - Phalènes (2009)

Moths - Falene - Phalènes
Feature Film (Completed, 70') Italy Italy Unrated Comedy, Noir
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Giovanni Costantino
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cast : Paolo Sassanelli, Totò Onnis
director : Andrès Ataualpa Arce Maldonado
producer : Giovanni Costantino
writer : Andrej Longo
music : Francesco Forni
editor : Gabriella Cristiani
visual effects : Crescenzo Mazza
director of photography : Maura Morales Bergmann
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Synopsis

Two old friends, in their forties, meet at night in the street.

They have a small talk about life, they actually talk about nothing and their chatting shows the emptiness of a desired, dreamt, imagined existence that has never been really lived.

This night is not like the others. They have to meet somebody and after this meeting they could be able to change life, to make their dream come true: to leave the ordinary world around theme, a world they have never had the strenght to escape from and in which they have always been involved.

Two indolent men who move in the limbo of life, trying to vaguely grasp the meaning of it and becoming in the end the metaphor of a blind and desperate mankind.

But theirs in a absurd, childish and unrealistic robbery.

Their dreamt escape from the world is deceptive: their meeting with life is actually a meeting with death and failure's lucid folly is waiting for theme, the end of all their dreams and the tragic and late awareness of useless and wasted life.

Movie Awards

Raindance Film Festival

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Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier

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Press Reviews
  • Sex in a Submarine (on 00/00/00 )
    " "the most beautifully shot film I have seen at the festival..One great shot after another...A great little movie, dialogue driven, and a nice actor’s showcase.... plus is looks great! Tarantino should bring this one to America on his Rolling Thunder label "
    by William ( Bill ) C. Martell
  • Paris - Normandie (on 00/00/00 )
    " "...l’une des grosses surprises de ce 31e Cinemed...“Phalènes” offre deux sacrées performances d’acteurs.." "
    by Anthony Quindroit
  • Raindance Film Festival (on 00/00/00 )
    " "...Moths is a well-paced, insightful film that will trap the viewer within its glowing, deceptive web as life has trapped its two protagonists..." "
    by Meredith Hicks
  • Divergences (on 00/00/00 )
    " "..Adapté d’un texte littéraire, Phalènes, réussit à entraîner le public dans une attente sans but réel que celui d’échapper à un enfermement dérisoire et désespéré. Les rôles sont distribués et les personnages se prêtent au jeu de qui gagne perd.." "
    by Christiane Passevant
  • Mucchio Selvaggio (on 00/00/00 )
    " "..Spesso, a fare la differenza, non è cosa si racconta ma come lo si racconta. Andrès Arce ha centrato il giusto tono.." "
    by Daniele Silipo
  • Bizzarro Cinema (on 00/00/00 )
    " "..interpretato in maniera eccellente da Paolo Sassanelli e Totò Onnis, Falene è un'opera anomala, finalmente distante dalle consuete produzioni nostrane: un piccolo grande “abbaglio”, nel buio della notte..Fotografare la realtà, il bisogno d'evasione e r "
    by Alessandra Sciamanna
  • Cinema Italiano (on 00/00/00 )
    " "... "Falene" è di suo un film diverso e alternativo, forte già dal testo e negli interpreti.. la giusta idea di cinema indipendente, a basso budget, palestra per artisti, tecnici e produttori; una storia semplice ma originale, con interpreti di spessore. "
    by Stefano Amadio
  • Script Magazine (on 00/00/00 )
    " "..When you are writing a dialogue-driven screenplay like Moths, the dialogue must be brilliant and amusing and filled with amazing moments. Think a whole film of Vincent and Jules from Pulp Fiction debating foot rubs and Quarter Pounders. Is every "
    by William C. Martell
  • Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (on 00/00/00 )
    " "..costituisce un interessante esperimento, in cui cinema e teatro si incontrano con innegabile suggestione, avendo un punto di forza nell'interpretazione di due attori di classe, come Toto' Onnis e Paolo Sassanelli.." "
    by Vito Attolini
  • What's Up (on 00/00/00 )
    " ".."Falene" è un film ben confezionato, divertente, impreziosito dai dialoghi frizzanti e dal montaggio impeccabile del premio Oscar Gabriella Cristiani.." "
    by Giacomo ioannisci
Movie Format
Aspect Ratio 16:9 HD
Sound Mix Dolby Digital