Paolo Cipolletta presents 'On Your Bones' at the Raffaello Bookshop in Naples, Friday, July 15th.
The presentation of Paolo Cipolletta's novel Sulle tue ossa (Edizioni MEA) will be held on Friday 15 July 2022 at 18 pm at the Raffaello Bookshop in Via Kerbaker, 35 in Naples.
Francesco Della Calce (Journalist and Film Critic) and Geltrude Vollaro (Edizioni MEA) will be in conversation with the author.
Readings by Matteo Pandolfi (Actor) and Franco Simeri (MEA Editions).
Synopsis
The peaceful life of Massimo, a brilliant musician, and his wife Paola, a successful cardiologist, is soon shattered by unfortunate news that will quickly overturn their daily lives. The cycle of life and death, light and darkness, hope and pain intertwine and become distorted.
The happiness of expecting twins turns into challenge, fear, courage: a rare case is Paola's pregnancy, which mocks probabilities, statistics and medical knowledge. It's up to him to put the pieces back in the right place, fit relationships together, redefine boundaries, modulate words. But his is also a fight against time, against the wounded pride of a man trying to escape from the labyrinth he is a prisoner of. Massimo, in fact, after a sensational and terrifying discovery, is no longer able to distinguish reality from illusion. Everything smacks of appearance that hides the primordial deception. Who will pay for the choices made? And for how long?
“With the writing of Fino ad essere felici, which then became my first feature film, I focused on life stories in search of the happiness yet to come. This time with Sulle tue ossa, however, I wanted to investigate more closely the past and the places of internal memories, that is, that memory of the body that would allow me to write a somatic story. I started from a news story that I read two years ago to investigate every fragment of bodily memory capable of transcending death to the point of influencing the future of the living. I asked myself where the memories that have no voice were housed, the so-called “silent traumas” inscribed in the body that becomes the only means through which to narrate the dark side of marital, filial and friendship relationships. I am already working on the film adaptation of this novel. I am finishing the draft of the screenplay which has already attracted the interest of national productions and an American distributor. I plan to start filming in 2023”, explained Paolo Cipolletta.
Biography
Paolo Cipolletta (Naples, 1978) is a director, screenwriter, communications expert trainer, and freelance journalist.
Three Months is his first film subject published by Iuppiter Edizioni in the anthology “Rosso Perfetto Nero Perfetto”.
He is the author of the screenplays for La Gatta Mammona, the short film Uocchie c'arragiunate and the feature film Fino ad essere felici.
He is co-author of the screenplay entitled Intermittenze.
As a director, he directed the short film La Gatta Mammona, awarded in various film festivals in the United States and Mexico and obtaining a special mention at the Naples Film Festival and with the short film Uocchie c'arragiunate he signed his second film direction receiving among the numerous awards that of Best Drama at the Screen Power Film Festival in London.
With the film Fino ad essere felici he directs his first feature film, released in cinemas in November 2021, starring Francesco Di Leva, Miriam Candurro and Gianfranco Gallo (to be released in September 2022 on all digital platforms).
The film has garnered many accolades to date:
Official Selection at the Riff Di Roma (Rome Independent Film Festival) and awarded with the Special Mention;
Official Selection at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival;
Official Selection at the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense;
Official Selection at the Out Shine Film Festival in Miami, the most important LGBTQ Festival in Florida;
Selected among the top ten National First Works at the Rome First Works Festival.
On Your Bones is her debut novel.
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