The film
ESCAPING LOVE
by Maria Martinelli
2006 – DVCAM – 4/3 Letterbox 1×90′ – 1×52′ – 6X25‘
Broadcasted: FOXlife (Italia), TSI (Svizzera), Ceska Televize (Repubblica Ceca)
Credits
docufiction Italy 2006 – DV 25’x6 – 1×52′ – 1×90′
Subject and director
Maria Martinelli
Treatment
Maria Martinelli
Giusi Santoro
D.O.P.
Andrea Dalpian
Shooting
Andrea Dalpian
Alessandra Brancati
Editing
Giusi Santoro
Consultancy
Alberto Bucci
Post-production and graphic
Lino reco Gerardo Lamattina DDR – Ravenna
Audio post-production
Giuseppe Lo Bue
Production
KAMERAFILM GIUSI SANTORO
More info
Escaping Love tells a world of “singles” that, with a lot of contradictions, are looking for a way to live their sentimental life. It tells of feelings, love, passion and the difficulty of recognizing these deeper and deeper emotions. Oscillating between moments of inevitable discouragement and great energy, Escaping Love says that the sentimental life is a game and love is always a ritual in which to invent new rules.
NOTE OF ARTISTIC INTENT
Silvana, the owner of the wedding agency, is a very beautiful woman, tall, blonde, looks like a model, that is a work that she did in her youth. She opened the wedding agency “Friendship & Love” three years ago in Ferrara and now has over three thousand members. Her agency is part of a franchising consisting of eight other agencies in Italy. The heads of the agencies meet once a month, they exchange information about their people and so they can rely on a recorded area larger meetings, raising the possibility for everyone “to find a soul mate.”
At the agency, there is everything, even more than you can imagine: it is possible finding young people who are looking for most serious and most determined intentions of those who meet in a disco and in their lives, more mature people, often separated with children with more difficulties in meeting everyday life, up to the elderly who still have not lost hope to pass their old age close to someone. Silvana, organises two meetings per month for each person and they trust her and her intuition. She weaves psychology, profiles and bodies, with that ability that sometimes only women have. Sometimes it hits the mark and sometimes not, but she certainly is a dispenser of positive energy and above all love and believing in the “myth of Prince Charming.”