Dolce far niente

The year is 1816. Henri Beyle, former quartermaster in Napoleon’s army, has not yet assumed the pseudonym Stendhal. He leaves Rome and sets out for Naples. The young and promising composer Gioachino Rossini leaves Naples and sets out for Rome. Both get stuck in a small town on the border of the Kingdom of Naples, but in the meantime a beautiful fellow passenger from the coach takes the courtly Frenchman under her wing and invites him to stay at the hospitable house of her relative, the Count Nencini who lives there in exile. Rossini that favorite of the public, is put up at a local inn.The Napoleonic campaigns are over and on the surface a sleepy calm rules the land. It seems there is nothing to impede intrigues and affairs of love. But night resounds with the cries of rebels, burned in the forest by the king’s guard and subjected to the cruelest of punishments.
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Script: Nae Caranfil (based on the novel by Frederic Vitoux)
Cinematography: Cristian Comeaga
Editing: Maryline Monthieux
Sound: Henry Morelle, Vittorio Relloni, Joel Raneon, Reine Wekstein
Music: Nicola Piovani. Art Direction: Elena Ricci Poccetto
Actors: Francois Cluzet (Stendhal), Isabella Ferrari (Josephina), Margherita Buy (Gabriella Necini), Giancarlo Giannini (Nencini)
Production: Mact Productions
Producers: Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Co-production: Sintra (Italy)
Format: 35mm, Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 1998
Duration: 110

Nae Caranfil

He was born in Bucharest in 1960. He graduated from Bucharest’s Academy of Theater and Cinema in 1984. He began by making shorts, which won prizes at several international festivals, then went on to write numerous screenplays for the French Compagnie des Images between 1989 and 1991. His first feature film, Don’t Lean Out the Window, a Romanian-French coproduction, won awards in Montpellier, La Baule and Bratislava. His subsequent films were box-office hits as well as critical successes. In 1995, he directed Asphalt Tango, another French- Romanian comedy with Charlotte Rampling in the leading role and, in 1999, Dolce far niente starring Francois Cluzet and Giancarlo Giannini. His black comedy Philanthropy (2001) won the Audience Award at the Paris FF and various other prizes in Wiesbaden, Mons,Wurzburg, Bratislava and Newport Beach, and screened at the Thessaloniki IFF in 2002.Written in 1988, The Rest Is Silence, received the Best Screenplay Award at the Paris FF in 1995 and Second Prize at the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Competition in Los Angeles in 1999.

Filmography

1983 Venice in September (short)
1984 Thirty Years of Insomnia (short)
1988 Backstage (doc.)
1993 E pericoloso sporgersi/ Don’t Lean Out the Window
1996 Asfalt Tango/Asphalt Tango
1998 Dolce far niente
2001 Filantropica/Philanthropy
2007 Restul e tacere/The Rest Is Silence