The Black Holes

Pappi Corsicato is one of Italy's most interesting directors at present. He has his own inimitable style, deviating from traditional story telling and by deriding everything from road movies to sacred institutions such as marriage, the family and funerals. He calls The Black Holes a ''modern fable''. The film is set, yet again, in southern Italy, outside Naples, Cosicato's birthplace. Adamo and Angela meet under the hot sun. Angela works as a prostitute and Adamo has a bleak view of life. Everything seems to happen by chance, even the murder he commits. Angela believes that she has finally found Mr Right, but her hopes that everything will work out are only illusions. Corsicato has said that his basic idea was to relate ''the impossibility of having a relationship if you don't get to know yourself first''. In a dream sequence, in a swimming pool, Adamo dreams of finally having sex with Angela, but they are interrupted by an abundance of bananas floating on the surface of the water. Adamo doesn't wake up however, he has no contact with his subconscious. The Black Holes is an unusual love story, packed with existentialist questions, full of symbolism and references to mythology. It is no accident that the characters are called Adamo and Angela. At the same time the film is an entertaining exhibition of Italian irony, precise and perfectly measured. It is difficult to pigeonhole Corsicato. He has been called Italy's answer to Pedro Almodovar, working as an assistent to Almodovar on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989), but his influences are much more varied than that, from literature, film, music and painting, from Camus to Pessoa, from Fassbinder and Pasolini to American science fiction. He aims at the same time to refer to a timelessness, which he thinks is successful when his audience is unsure exactly which period his film depicts. We can be sure that Corsicato's films are a far cry from the sort of film we normally associate with the name neoneorealism. He is more a surrealist: ''I like films that change reality into something else. To try to imitate reality in order to understand it, is difficult.''.

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Orig. titel
I BUCHI NERI: Medverkande
Iaia Forte, Vincenzo Peluso, Marinella Anaclerio: Producent
Aurelio De Laurentiis: Manus
Pappi Corsicato: Foto
Italo Daniele Petriccione: Musik
Pappi Corsicato: Talat språk
Italian