2017 Semi Finalist – SHORTS
Luca Machnich – DirectoR/Writer
- THE EVE is a story that echoes the style of the great American thriller writer Robert Bloch (whose novel “Psycho” was filmed by Hitchcock) in its macabre irony, of Dino Buzzati, the most important Italian fantasy writer in its longing for the transcendent and the desperate waiting for an opportunity of redemption from a tragic life, and of the great American fantasy fiction writer Henry James in its interior monologues and in the psychological narration of the leading characters. Instead, it distances itself from a certain Italian film genre that was exploited until the end of the 19th century and whose formulas now appear repetitive.The film gives the opportunity to explore in an international film language the purity and fantasy of a child’s world violated by the cynicism of the world of adults, and to narrate it through the dilated times of dream and imagination in the setting of a Christmas that has nothing joyful and mystical and where the waiting for another future, symbolized by the bell tower, is the leading character of the story.