Before It Had a Name (2005)

Director:

Giada Colagrande

Writers:

Giada Colagrande (writer)
Willem Dafoe (writer)

Release Date:

2007 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house... |

Cast

Claudio Botosso	...	Karl
Seymour Cassel	...	Jeff
Giada Colagrande	...	Eleonora
Willem Dafoe	...	Leslie
Isaach De Bankolé	...	Waiter
Bari Hyman	...	Local Policewoman
Spenser Leigh	...	Girl crossing street
Emily McDonnell	...	Gail

Also Known As:

The Black Widow (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief violence.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Germany:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

New Paltz, New York, USA

Company:

Bidou Pictures

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "The French Chef" (1962)

Soundtrack:

Domani e un Altro Giorno (The Wonders you Perform)

A GREAT AND UNIQUE MOVIE (but not for everybody)

I saw this movie in Venice Film Festival and I think it's a GREAT movie! It's funny and touching at the same time, full of tension and sexy, a little scary... and at the end I got really moved by it. It has a very original style and an awkwardness to it that makes it hard to define and to recognize. Most important, it stays with me still now, after two months since I saw it. But I can see why it's a movie that a lot of people don't get and won't like, it feels very intimate and intense, it makes you feel like an inappropriate voyeur... and that's something that most people don't want to deal with and get disturbed by (especially if there is sex involved). Also the fact that people know that Dafoe and Colagrande are a couple in real life (they wrote it together and they both act in it) I think might hurt the movie because people confuse what they see on screen with their real intimacy and get really embarrassed by it, they don't know how to deal with it and sometimes react really bad. I read a terrible review on Variety.com and was shocked of how stupid and mean it was, the reviewer didn't get it at all and seemed angry at the director for making the movie, which is a typical attitude of stupid and frustrated journalists 'wanna-be-directors' that I can't stand. But, as they say, the most interesting movies are always controversial and get the strongest reactions, in the good and the bad! So the fact that people either love it or hate it must be a good sign. Anyway I hope it gets released in the States so that you get a chance to see something really unique and judge yourself!