| DIRECTOR: |
Elisabetta Lodoli |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Elisabeta Lodoli, Heidrun
Schleef |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Cesare Accetta |
| EDITION: |
Anna Napoli |
| MUSIC: |
Savio Riccardi |
| CAST: |
Iaia Forte, Luisa Pasello,
Emilio Bonucci, Ilaria Occhini, Paolo Bonanni |
| PRODUCER: |
Elisabetta Lodoli |
| FESTIVALS: |
Torino, Rotterdam, Vancouver,
Washington, Filadélfia |
| PRODUCTION: |
Elisabetta Lodoli
Via Giovani Lanza 108 - 00184 Roma
Tel.: 00 39 6 487-3242
Fax 00 39 6 329-6790 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Elisabetta Lodoli
Via Giovani Lanza 108 - 00184 Roma
Tel.: 00 39 6 487-3242
Fax 00 39 6 329-6790 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
La
Venere di Willendorf
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Col., 86 min., 1996 |
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Graduated in Philosophy by the University
of Bologna, Elisabetta Lodoli also studied cinema
and TV directing at the California Institute of
Arts in Los Angeles. She has directed two short
films: Off Season, in 1981, and Buon
Natale, 1991. She also made a documentary La
Pace a Due Voci on the Arab-Israel conflict. The
Vênus of Willendorf is her first fiction
feature film.
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Cousins
Elena and Ida meet after fifteen years for the sale of a
villa by the sea where both had, by custom, spent their
school holidays. The women had drawn apart owing to
mutual resentment. Elena had married Enrico, a former
boyfriend of Ida. While they remove the objects from the
house, they remember the days spent together on this
site. When the task is done, each retires to her own room
and to her secrets. Ida spends nights talking to Bruno,
the man with whom she has lived for the last eight years
and whom she intends to leave. Elena fills her emptyness
with enormous volumes of food. She suffers from bulimia.
Over the last years, her marriage to Enrico has become
mere formality. Elena is embarrassed over her obese body
and refuses any sexual contact with her husband. After a
fight, Elena expels Ida from the house. Ida goes to the
station but, unable to board the train, she returns to
the villa. Through a window, that night, she witnesses
degradation in her cousin desperately tackling a tableful
of food. The gastronomic orgy comes to an end when all
has been devoured. The two women exchange glances through
the window. Elena has no more secrets.