Body Odyssey
Italy / Switzerland, November 2023
FILM,
Fiction,
104 min.
- directed by
- Grazia Tricarico
- Written by
- Marco Morana, Giulio Rizzo, Grazia Tricarico
- Status
- In distribution
Mona is a senior bodybuilder who is training for a world championship, her existence is a spasmodic quest for perfection and beauty. Her life is steadily followed by her coach who monitors her single daily actions like a demiurge and an artist: her sleep, her nutrition, her training sessions, her doping dosage, her psychology and even her sexual life. This routine gets interrupted when a young guy appears: a single brief sexual encounter over-balances her discipline and her will. Her body, like an inner voice, will start evolving into a separate entity with a different personality.
Mona, una culturista esperta, si sta allenando per il campionato mondiale. La sua vita è un'unica ricerca della perfezione e della bellezza e il suo allenatore controlla ogni sua azione come un demiurgo e un artista: sonno, dieta, sessioni di allenamento, iniezioni di doping, psiche e persino la sua vita sessuale. Questa routine viene spezzata quando appare un giovane uomo: un solo breve incontro sessuale sconvolge la sua autodisciplina e la sua volontà. Il suo corpo, come una voce interiore, si evolve in un essere indipendente con una personalità diversa.
credits
- World Premiere
- November 2023
- Original Version
- English (italian subtitles), colour, DCP, 104 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-D462-0000-6-0000-0000-J
- Production
- Revok Film, Amka Films Productions SA, Fenix Entertainment, RAI Cinema, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera
- Producer
- Olga Lamontanara, Michela Pini, Amel Soudani, Donatello Della Pepa
- directed by
- Grazia Tricarico
- Written by
- Marco Morana, Giulio Rizzo, Grazia Tricarico
- Cinematography
- Corrado Serri
- Editing
- Davide La Porta
- Location Sound Mix
- Barnaby Hall
- Sound Editing
- Eric Guerrino Nardin
- Production Design
- Marinella Perrotta
- Costumes
- Jessica Zambelli
- Make up
- Francesca Reverdito
Cast
Besmir Toplana as Lukas
Jacqueline Fuchs as Mona
Petra Osterwald
Julian Sands
Adam Misik
Stefan Sauk
Lukas Loughran
Lukas Wyler
Thomas Scheu
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Intramovies
Awards
(a selection)
- Sitges, International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Best direction (Noves Visions) 2024 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Sitges, 57. International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
03.10.2024 - 13.10.2024 -
Strasbourg, 17e Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival
20.09.2024 - 29.09.2024 -
Tallinn, 27th PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival
03.11.2023 - 19.11.2023