Capri-Revolution (2018)

With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.

Director:

Mario Martone

Writers:

Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo

Stars:

Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto

11 wins & 25 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marianna Fontana	...	Lucia
Reinout Scholten van Aschat	...	Seybu
Antonio Folletto	...	Carlo
Jenna Thiam	...	Lilian
Lola Klamroth	...	Nina
Ludovico Girardello	...	Luca
Maximilian Dirr	...	Herbert
Gianluca Di Gennaro	...	Antonio
Donatella Finocchiaro	...	Maria
Eduardo Scarpetta	...	Vincenzo
Rinat Khismatouline	...	Maksim Gor'kij
Agnieszka Jania	...	Carmela
Giulia Mazzarino	...	Commune Member
Yannick Noomen
Mattia Garaci	...	Commune Child

Storyline

In 1914 twenty year-old Lucia enjoys a bucolic island existence looking after the family's herds of goats. The family's past, with all the positive aspects represented by the often silent mother figure, is concentrated in the house where the sick father is replaced by the brothers who are the bearers of the defense of a tradition that becomes an increasingly heavy dress for Lucia to wear. But when her father dies, her grumpy older brother decides to marry her off to a rich widower, thinking first and foremost about the financial benefits for the family. She joins a nudist colony, despite warnings from the locals that they are "devils". They are a commune of young North Europeans has found on Capri the ideal place to live their alternative life style and practice their art. There she falls under the spell of painter and commune leader Seybu. He teaches her to read and soon she is multi-lingual. But the local doctor Carlo hopes to win her affections and the two men fiercely stating ...

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Plot Keywords:

male full frontal nudity | commune | capri italy | artist | illiterate | 

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Genres:

Drama | History

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Music of the movie was composed by Apparat (real name Sasha Ring), who appears in the movies as one of the hippies.

User Reviews

Mediocre

Overlong, repetitive, pedantic, prosaic, superficial.

2 millennia ago Plato determined that the best medium for his theories would have been the literary dialogue form. Nowadays, video directors like Martone, think that it's a good idea to make a 2 hours movie with 20 minutes of bodies doing hippie things plus 20 minutes of people arguing with each other about their views (which obviously represent the writers' irrelevant perspectives on the world). What about having images, sounds, the editing or the flow of events as your tools to communicate something? Nah... Martone likes to be direct on such overly important topics: let's just have the actors tell everything as if we were on a talk show (or the radio..)..

The only redeeming factors are - unsurprisingly and depressingly - the photography (guess what? one of the most iconic and beautiful tourist destinations..) and the natural beauty of the young actors.

Details

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian Neapolitan English French German Russian

Release Date:

20 December 2018 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Capri-Devrim

Filming Locations:

Naples, Campania, Italy

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$828,363

Company Credits

Production Co:

Indigo Film, Pathé, Rai Cinema

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1