La solitudine è questa

The film recounts Pier Vittorio Tondelli through what he left behind: his words and his books, reread by seven present-day authors who were born during the 1980s that Tondelli lived through and described. Seven invitations to interpret, gathered together in an atypical “docu-road movie” by two interviewer-actors, Lorenzo Balducci and Tobia De Angelis, who embody the words and characters of Tondelli’s novels and writings.

COMMENTARYSeven Italian writers “under 40” and eight Italian cities (plus Berlin) are featured to recount the atmospheres, the fascination and the current relevance of the work of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who died aged just 36 in December 1991. From his hometown of Correggio to L’Aquila (where his Altri libertini was denounced and seized), Rimini, Bologna, Florence, Rome and Milan, Jonathan Bazzi, Angela Bubba, Viola Di Grado, Paolo Di Paolo, Claudia Durastanti, Alessio Forgione and Alcide Pierantozzi guide us through Tondelli’s books, while the interviewer-actors Lorenzo Balducci and Tobia De Angelis embody characters from them. Defined by the filmmakers as a “docu-road movie”, La solitudine è questa (taken from a line from Camere separate, his last novel) was directed by Andrea Adriatico, who co-wrote the screenplay along with Grazia Verasani and Stefano Casi.



DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
Tondelli made himself a blotter of his time, in real time, embracing the culture of the night and the interdisciplinary relationship between the various artistic forms: cinema, music, theatre, fashion, comic books... All elements that characterised his language, but which also strongly conditioned the language of those who came after him. His solitude is also that of the traveller: Tondelli was an inexhaustible traveller who loved to both celebrate the province and mythologise Europe and America as lands of freedom and pleasure. That’s how we imagine him: capable of isolating himself in the most deafening noise, mentally taking notes and inescapably intertwining life and writing.