“I’m a romantic, even if I don’t have the face, and I’m also very idealistic and loyal. So I found it very nice to do this character through the eyes of a director who was able to look at Alexander’s frailties without ever judging”. This is how Pierfrancesco Favino described his role in PROMISES, a film by Amanda Sthers inspired by the novel of the same name by the same director, which went to the Rome Film Festival and which will be distributed in Italy by Vision Distribution from 18 November.
And that it is a truly romantic story is confirmed by Sthers herself, a French director of Tunisian origin: “I wrote eleven novels, but seven years ago I had a strong desire to make a truly romantic story and PROMISES came out, I wouldn’t have but never imagined it would become a film “.
Shot in English, between London and Italy, and rich in cultural references, from Calvino to Proust, PROMISES really speaks of romantic love, that of Alexander (Favino), a man with a difficult past and who lives as a book researcher, for Laura ( Kelly Reilly, 44-year-old British actress and Costner’s restless daughter in the YELLOSTONE series) a fine art gallery owner about to get married. Although Alexander is happy with his wife and their little girl, between him and Laura is immediately chemistry. Both understand at first glance that they will have no escape, but their destiny in the years to come will be only to touch each other.
They will never be able to go further despite the desire. Although perhaps it is true, as we read in the synopsis, that “a love that has never lived is a love that can never die”. In the cast of the film, an Indiana Production, Vision Distribution, Barbary Films and Iwaca production in collaboration with SKY and Amazon Prime video also: Jean Reno, Cara Theobold, Kris Marshall, Deepak Verma, Leon Hesby, Ginnie Watson. “In reality I don’t have the tendency to procrastinate when I like a woman – underlined Favino at the Rome Festival -, but it’s true that we don’t always meet at the right time. There are situations in which the time is always wrong and then we he asks himself: who knows if I had taken another path what would have happened? “.
Alexander, Italian father and English mother: “He chooses the Anglo-Saxon culture – explains the actor – for a painful situation in his past in Italy. A way to curb his Latin passion with the Anglo-Saxon culture that tends to distance itself from things It was nice – he continues – to make such a complex character, and this thanks to the solidity of the story that favored a great freedom of expression.
However, unlike my character, I have no regrets! I understood it just by making this film which is full of them “.
However Favino explains: “I am not like Cosimo from IL BARONE RAMPANTE by Calvino who climbs and lives in trees. On the contrary, not surprisingly at the end of the film, my character projects himself into a reality that is no longer earthly by saying this phrase: ‘ death is the land of second chances “. In short, he never takes refuge in a certain boundary. Even if it is true that I sometimes lock myself in a bubble of fantasy for two months even though I already know how it ends”.
From the director only genuine praise to Favino: “For me it was a dream to work with him. I always saw him in Italian films, but I didn’t know he spoke English so well. Then one day I happened to see an interview of him and I discovered this. his talent. And besides, he is a very virile man, in terms of physiognomy, and at the same time very kind. He therefore combined the two things that for me were perfect for the character. Finally – says Amanda Sthers – he is also a very cerebral man , however, capable of putting aside this virtue of his when he recites. In short, it is many things together. Italians keep it dear to you: it is a national treasure “. (HANDLE).
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