Gianfranco Rosi
2013 - 93 min - Couleur - Italie, France
The "Grande Raccordo Anulare" (GRA) surrounds Rome. This imposing ring road forms a car trench separating the city from its suburbs. An informal society has formed itself around the eight-lane freeway where a character gallery lives under the car flow. The filmmaker Gianfranco Rossi moved to the GRA for a year in order to film in close proximity those who live where cars rush at 120 kilometers per hour. He found two worlds which graze past one another without ever making contact.
On one hand, the middle class which uses this route morning and evening to go to work in Rome; on the other hand a heterogeneous collection of people composed of a heir from the dolce vita, a plumber who built his home on a parking lot, an engineer, a Gypsy, an Ethiopian.
Like Raymond Carver, Rossi plunges into this human maze that swarms around, under, over and near this terrifying freeway, which cuts as a stanley knife through the roman geography.
Author-Director : Gianfranco Rosi
Author : Nicolò Bassetti
Photography : Gianfranco Rosi
Sound : Gianfranco Rosi
Editing : Jacopo Quadri
Delegate Producer : Doclab
Co-producer : La Femme endormie
Co-producer : Rai Cinema
Contribution : Regione Lazio, CNC, Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali et del turismo (MiBACT), Roma Lazio Film Commission
Distinctions
2014 - DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki (Finlande) : Sélection2014 - Terra di cinema, Paris (France) : Hors compétition
2014 - CorsicaDoc - Festival international du film documentaire d'Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France) : Sélection
2014 - VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), Vancouver (Canada) : Sélection
2013 - Mostra Internationale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, Venise (Italie) : Lion d'Or