Highlights

The Ties

Lacci

Avant-Premiere

Daniele Luchetti / Italy / 2020 / 100 min / Drama
Italian / Subtitles English

Naples, early 80s. Aldo and Vanda both love each other and tear each other apart. Thirty years later, they are still a couple. For better, for worse. Italian cinema at its best. A tender and bitter chronicle that caused a sensation when it opened the Venice Mostra.

Daniele Luchetti was an assistant and actor for Nanni Moretti, who would later produce his first film. The Ties (Lacci) is adapted from a novel by the famous Domenico Starnone (who is also said to be the author of the books by Elena Ferrante). Here, cruelty characterizes the story of a couple caught in a whirlwind of resentment. Ties still unite them, even without love. A polyphonic fresco that opened the Venice Mostra to much acclaim.

Direction

Daniele Luchetti

Screenplay

Domenico Starnone, Francesco Piccolo, Daniele Luchetti

Image

Ivan Casalgrandi

Editing

Daniele Luchetti, Ael Dallier Vega

Sound

Carlo Missidenti

Production

IBC Movie (Beppe Caschetto)

Co-production

Misia Films (Valentina Merli), Rai Cinema (Bianca Giordano)

With

Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

International sales

Mk2 (Fionnuala Jamison)

Distribution

Cineworx (Pascal Trächslin)