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Kryptonite!

Genre

Film comedy, drama

Cast

Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Cristiana Capotondi, Libero De Rienzo, Fabrizio Gifuni, Lucia Ragni, Antonia Truppo, Monica Nappo, Rosaria De Cicco, Massimiliano Gallo, Luigi Catani, Pierpaolo Pollano, Vincenzo Nemolato, Gennaro Cuomo

Directed by

Ivan Cotroneo

Kryptonite!

Genre

Film comedy, drama

Cast

Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Cristiana Capotondi, Libero De Rienzo, Fabrizio Gifuni, Lucia R

Directed by

Ivan Cotroneo
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Where it was filmed 'Kryptonite!'

The film was filmed and is set in 1970s Naples, a city that is transgressive yet poetic, colourful and gloomy, especially in the scenes filmed on the seafront in winter and in the rain. Peppino is a ‘special’ child, who makes up for his loneliness with his fervid imagination, and is surrounded by a rather over-the-top family.

Every morning, his mother Rosaria takes him to school, passing through the streets of the historic centre and through the Galleria Umberto I. One day, when she picks him up from school, she sits him down on the edge of the fountain in the cloister of the Boarding School of the Church of Sant’Eligio Maggiore, in Via di Napoli a short distance away from the small courtyard where Peppino’s fellow students play ball using him as lookout.

The coloured houses of Procida welcome Rosaria and Peppino, on a journey which, for her, is tainted with regret of her long lost youth, while from Terra Murata, a fortified village on the highest point on the island, she describes to her son what he can’t see, both because he is short-sighted and because she is describing things that exist only in her memories.

Peppino’s aunt and uncle, Titina and Salvatore, are two hippies trying to find themselves, in feminist groups where no one is afraid to practise nudity and parties in clubs where, between artificial drugs and loose morals, the watchword is transgression. During one of these parties, at the Mostra d’Oltremare, a group of Greek students involves them in a lively Sirtaki.

Peppino’s father, unfaithful and clumsy, does what he can: he divides his attention between his depressed wife, his needy lover, and distracting his son, for example on the fairground rides in Piazza Mercato, while he entertains himself not far away. 

Everyone is too wrapped up in their own lives to worry about Peppino; everyone that is except Gennaro who, having died as a human, reappears as Superman to stand by Peppino through the difficult times: at school, at home, at the beach and, after a night-time flight, at the former monastery of Suor Orsola Benincasa, where the pair pay tribute to the city as it wakes at dawn, with Vesuvius on the horizon, and make their goodbyes.

Where it was filmed 'Kryptonite!'

The film was filmed and is set in 1970s Naples, a city that is transgressive yet poetic, colourful and gloomy, especially in the scenes filmed on the seafront in winter and in the rain. Peppino is a ‘special’ child, who makes up for his loneliness with his fervid imagination, and is surrounded by a rather over-the-top family.

Every morning, his mother Rosaria takes him to school, passing through the streets of the historic centre and through the Galleria Umberto I. One day, when she picks him up from school, she sits him down on the edge of the fountain in the cloister of the Boarding School of the Church of Sant’Eligio Maggiore, in Via di Napoli a short distance away from the small courtyard where Peppino’s fellow students play ball using him as lookout.

The coloured houses of Procida welcome Rosaria and Peppino, on a journey which, for her, is tainted with regret of her long lost youth, while from Terra Murata, a fortified village on the highest point on the island, she describes to her son what he can’t see, both because he is short-sighted and because she is describing things that exist only in her memories.

Peppino’s aunt and uncle, Titina and Salvatore, are two hippies trying to find themselves, in feminist groups where no one is afraid to practise nudity and parties in clubs where, between artificial drugs and loose morals, the watchword is transgression. During one of these parties, at the Mostra d’Oltremare, a group of Greek students involves them in a lively Sirtaki.

Peppino’s father, unfaithful and clumsy, does what he can: he divides his attention between his depressed wife, his needy lover, and distracting his son, for example on the fairground rides in Piazza Mercato, while he entertains himself not far away. 

Everyone is too wrapped up in their own lives to worry about Peppino; everyone that is except Gennaro who, having died as a human, reappears as Superman to stand by Peppino through the difficult times: at school, at home, at the beach and, after a night-time flight, at the former monastery of Suor Orsola Benincasa, where the pair pay tribute to the city as it wakes at dawn, with Vesuvius on the horizon, and make their goodbyes.

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Data sheet

Genre
Film comedy, drama
Directed by
Ivan Cotroneo
Cast
Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Cristiana Capotondi, Libero De Rienzo, Fabrizio Gifuni, Lucia Ragni, Antonia Truppo, Monica Nappo, Rosaria De Cicco, Massimiliano Gallo, Luigi Catani, Pierpaolo Pollano, Vincenzo Nemolato, Gennaro Cuomo
Country of production
Italy
Year
2011
Setting year
1973
Production
Indigo FilmRai Cinema
Awards
Ciak d'oro 2012: Best Acress for Valeria Golino - Best Cinematography for Luca Bigazzi - Best Costumes for Rossano Marchi
Plot

Naples, 1973. Peppino is a bespectacled and lonely little boy with a big family wrapped up in their own lives. He has an imaginary friend, a ‘special’ cousin, who reappeared to him as Superman after he died.

The locations

Procida
Region: Campania Type: Island Territory: Sea
Mostra d’Oltremare
Region: Campania Type: Exhibition Centre Territory: City, Sea
Naples
Region: Campania Type: City Territory: City, Sea

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