First Love (2004 Italian film)

First Love (Italian: Primo Amore) is an Italian 2004 erotic body horror drama film directed by Matteo Garrone and Massimo Gaudioso, loosely based on the autobiographical novel by Marco Mariolini. The film deals with anorexia nervosa.

Primo Amore
Directed byMatteo Garrone
Written byMatteo Garrone
Massimo Gaudioso
Produced byDomenico Procacci
StarringVitaliano Trevisan
Michela Cescon
CinematographyMarco Onorato
Edited byMarco Spoletini
Music byBanda Osiris
Release date
13 February 2004
Running time
100 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

Vittorio (Vitaliano Trevisan) is a goldsmith looking for a very thin woman to make golden figurines of. He meets a model, Sonia (Michela Cescon), whom he finds too fat. Somehow he manages to convince her to lose weight to an unhealthy degree...

Production

Michela Cescon actually lost 15 kilograms (over 30 pounds) in weight during the making of the film, as the director wanted.[1]

Awards

The score won Banda Osiris the 2004 Silver Berlin Bear for Best Film Music. The band won at other festivals, too. At the Flaiano Film Festival, Michela Cescon won for Best Actress and Marco Onorato won for Best Cinematography.

Reception

The film "has been described as “a horror movie about desire,” which seems fitting."[2] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times finds this film "an elegantly told tale of obsession that, in failing to take on any larger meaning, rapidly becomes depressing to watch."[3] Thomas and others are confused as to "why she [Sonia] strives so mightily to please someone so obviously insane."

See also

References
  1. Projected Shadows: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Representation of Loss in European Cinema, p. 48, p. 48, at Google Books
  2. Abrams, Danielle (2007-10-23). "Primo Amore". Italian Film blog. Retrieved 2007-11-10. "The director takes an uncomfortably close look at obsessive love, further complicated by the troubled characters’ various psychological issues."
  3. Kevin Thomas, "Capsule Reviews: 'Primo Amore,' 'The Man Who Copied' and 'The Painting'" Los Angeles Times April 29, 2005


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