Body Odyssey

Italy / Switzerland, November 2023
FILM, Fiction, 104 min.

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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.

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World Premiere
November 2023
Original Version
English (italian subtitles),  colour, DCP, 104 min.
ISAN
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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

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