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Love at the Time of an Earthquake

When you lose the ground beneath you, there is only one thing left to do: forget what you were and start over.

synopsis

A young North African man enraged with a country that rejects him, a lawyer involved with property sharks who has to decide between love and a career facilitated by his unhappy marriage, a young woman whose only guilt was to fall for the wrong man and wish to spend her life with him. Nabil, Massimo, Lucia: two men and a woman whose stories, full of mistakes, self-serving choices and reckless actions, intersect on the night of the 6th of April 2009, when a terrible earthquake hits the city of L’Aquila and the Abruzzo region, causing hundreds of fatalities, severe damage and forcing thousands of people out of their homes and into tents for months. The earthquake also separates Nabil, Massimo and Lucia. It changes their lives completely, forces them to look inside themselves, and overturns their previous roles. Despite the events, the three seem to find a new balance until, once again, fate brings them together...

Director’statement

The idea of setting our story during the earthquake of L’Aquila came from imagining this traumatic event as a short circuit in the life of the three characters. Thus the earthquake becomes a character in its own right, resulting from our protagonists’ unbearable pain, and not just a natural catastrophe. Symbolically, it gives them a new life. The event of the earthquake in L’Aquila, in this case, is free of any political superstructure; it could happen anywhere in the world. We were interested, above all, in following the fate of people who find themselves face to face with the upheaval inside them, more than with the one surrounding them. In their case, the earthquake that disseminates death, finally makes them aware of themselves, and makes their lives worth living.

TFL PROGRAMME:
ScriptLab 2012
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TFL Catalogue 2012

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