Bianco e nero

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Label

Bianco e nero

Statement of responsibility

regia, Cristina Comencini ; soggetto e sceneggiatura di Giulia Calenda, Maddalena Ravagli, Cristina Comencini ; una produzione Cattleya e Rai Cinema ; prodotto da Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz

Contributor

• 01 Distribution
• Cattleya (Firm)
• RAI Cinema (Firm)
• Angiolini, Ambra, 1977-
• Bonaiuto, Anna
• Branciaroli, Franco
• Calenda, Giulia
• Chimenz, Marco
• Cianchetti, Fabio
• Comencini, Cristina
• Ebouaney, Eriq
• Maïga, Aïssa
• Ravagli, Maddalena
• Ricciarelli, Katia
• Stabilini, Giovanni
• Tozzi, Riccardo
• Volo, Fabio, 1972-

Subject

• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Foreign language films -- Italian
• Interracial dating -- Drama
• Interracial friendship -- Drama
• Motion pictures -- Italy

Genre

• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Foreign language films
• Motion pictures

Language

• ita
• eng
• ita
• ita

Summary

"Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her daughter Giovanna and her husband Carlo, a computer technician, must attend evening charity events where they feel distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman with whom he establishes an intimate understanding at first glance. Nadine's husband Bertrand, a refined black intellectual and the evening's featured speaker, stirs everyone with his heartfelt words. Later Carlo convinces his wife, who is quite hesitant, to invite Nadine and her children to Giovanna's birthday party. In the midst of the fun and noise of the party, Carlo and Nadine barely say a word, but their feelings are unmistakable. A computer needing repair breaks down the last barriers, allowing their passion to flow free, while others, their family and friends, are flooded with feelings of astonishment, rejection and a certain morbid curiosity: what is it like for a black woman to love a white man? What happens to a passionate love when everything is working against it?"--Filmitalia

Cataloging source

IND

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematography, Fabio Cianchetti ; editing, Cecilia Zanuso

Language note

In Italian with English or Italian subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.C55

LC item number

B4975 2008

PerformerNote

Fabio Volo, Ambra Angiolini, Aïssa Maïga, Eriq Ebouaney, Katia Ricciarelli, Anna Bonaiuto, Franco Branciaroli, Teresa Saponangelo, Bob Messini, Billo, Awa Ly

Runtime

100

Technique

live action