I TEMPI FELICI VERRANNO PRESTO
HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON
Alessandro Comodin / France, Italy / 2016 / 102 min / Colour
Is Tommaso and Arturo's flight an escape? Have they found refuge in the forest? Or is the forest only a place to play? The game transforms into something else after they find a cadaver. In the same forest, Ariane gets lost. It seems that she, too, is escaping, or maybe searching for shelter. In the forest there is a wolf, and the inhabitants of those mountains experience the usual conflict of Man who rediscovers that he is part of Nature. Ariane digs a hole: searching for what? Maybe the two boys, making possible a bridge over time? Or maybe she is in search of the wolf, which she fears and desires? A dark, fascinating film that investigates our primordial instincts and ancestral fears.
Alessandro Comodin
A young Friulian director, he lives and works in Paris. He holds a diploma in directing from the INSAS in Brussels. His films have been screened at prestigious international festivals, earning numerous prizes. Among these, L’estate di Giacomo (2011) won the Pardo d’oro – Cineasti del presente, at the Locarno Film Festival, while I tempi felici verranno presto (2016) won the Beatrice Sartori Award at the Cannes Festival.
Credits
Screenplay Alessandro Comodin, Milena MagnaniCinematography Tristan BordmannEditing João Nicolau, Alessandro ComodinMain cast Sabrina Seyvecou, Erikas Sizonovas, Luca Bernardi, Carlo Rigoni, Marco Giordana, Paolo Viano, Marinella CichelloProducer Paolo Benzi, Thomas OrdonneauProduction company Okta Film, Shellac Sud, Rai Cinema, Arte France Cinéma