The Wedding Director (2006)
"Il regista di matrimoni" (original title)

A film director falls in love with the daughter of a prince.

Director:

Marco Bellocchio

Writer:

Marco Bellocchio

Stars:

Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey

7 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Sergio Castellitto	...	Franco Elica
Donatella Finocchiaro	...	Bona di Gravina
Sami Frey	...	Principe di Gravina
Gianni Cavina	...	Smamma
Maurizio Donadoni	...	Micetti
Bruno Cariello	...	Enzo Baiocco
Simona Nobili	...	Maddalena Baiocco
Claudia Zanella	...	Chiara Elica
Corinne Castelli	...	Fara Domani / Lucia Mondella
Silvia Ajelli	...	Gioia Rottofreno / Monaca di Monza
Aurora Peres	...	Sposa
Giacomo Guernieri	...	Sposo
Carmelo Galati	...	Luigi
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giovanni Calcagno
Ludovico Caldarera	...	Riccardo Rezza

Storyline

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?

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Plot Keywords:

director | marriage | black and white | bare breasts | amateur film | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Details

Official Sites:

Films sans Frontières [fr]

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

4 June 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Wedding Director

Filming Locations:

Cefalù, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmalbatros, Rai Cinema, Dania Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Exuberance

If Sicily is a territory of the baroque, with its doubling of perspective, that's part of this movie's challenge to realism. And it's an exuberant pleasure here, outdoing Fellini with not one but three film directors, plus of course the actual Bellocchio, who has made some really great movies and shouldn't be touchy about his honor. There is a variety of takes and casting improvisations on Manzoni's "I promessi sposi" with, somewhere there, actual marriage. Sicily is also taken to be a territory of skulduggery (You already know this version of the island, so there's no spoiler involved), a comic version of which makes the picture worth seeing for Sergio Castellito's work with guard dogs on the floor of the great hall of a palazzo.