PAROLE
OPERETTA PER VOCE
E PIANO

"What did I want? To describe my case, not to foresee. Not to plan anything. I was looking for abandon. What did I want from the filmmaker Luigi Ceccon? In very few words, that he wouldn't know anything of what I would say or do; that he'd gain a gradual distance from me. That he would be ready to run after me and stand still to listen to me. I told him to leave out the sea because it is overemphatic. I told him to choose an 'undecided' distance to show the relationship between Corrado and me because our relationship is undecided. I told him to tell the story of a boat as if it was a small theater with a shabby set design. I listened to him a lot, because I was always in tune. And Monica Stambrini performed a real miracle with the editing, giving form to a rhapsodic and often entangled material. Everything in this small film is deliberately 'extemporary,' like the improvisation that Danilo Rea played while he was watching the film for the first time. This is a small tribute to extemporaneity." [Umberto Contarello]

Umberto Contarello (Padua, 1958) was the leader of the local Italian Communist Federation in the 1970s. He graduated with a degree in philosophy of science from the University of Padua, then decided to move to Rome to pursue his passion for cinema with his long-time friends Carlo Mazzacurati and Enzo Monteleone. He earned his first salary as a screenwriter for the series Orazio with Maurizio Costanzo. Shortly afterwards, he wrote his first film with Mazzacurati and Monteleone, Marrakech Express, which was directed by Gabriele Salvatores. He has never stopped since.