The Hummingbird flows like a single pour of events on different planes, like the recounting of a life story, with episodes that come to the surface apparently randomly but which are instead linked by inner strands, sometimes unconsciously. The director wanted the world that surrounds the protagonists, houses, streets, images, light and changing seasons to wrap them in a cloak as if for a journey.
The most significant events in the life of The Hummingbird - Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino) - happen near a seaside villa in the Maremma, between Capalbio, Porto Ercole (Monte Argentario) and Ansedonia, hamlet of Orbetello: Francesca Archibugi’s film was inspired by the novel of the same title by Sandro Veronesi (winner of the Premio Strega 2020).
Amidst memories, shifts in time, correspondence with his one true, but never consummated, love Luisa Lattes (Bérenice Béjo), Marco, the main character, lives his adult life in Rome but returns to the place of his childhood, Florence, to challenge his implacable fate; in this, he is morally supported by Daniele Carradori (Nanni Moretti), psychoanalyst to his wife Marina (Kasia Smutniak), who helps Marco find the way to handle the most unexpected changes. Locations in Florence included: piazza Savonarola, piazza Santo Spirito, piazza del Mercato Nuovo, bridge of Santa Trinita.
The Hummingbird flows like a single pour of events on different planes, like the recounting of a life story, with episodes that come to the surface apparently randomly but which are instead linked by inner strands, sometimes unconsciously. The director wanted the world that surrounds the protagonists, houses, streets, images, light and changing seasons to wrap them in a cloak as if for a journey.
The most significant events in the life of The Hummingbird - Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino) - happen near a seaside villa in the Maremma, between Capalbio, Porto Ercole (Monte Argentario) and Ansedonia, hamlet of Orbetello: Francesca Archibugi’s film was inspired by the novel of the same title by Sandro Veronesi (winner of the Premio Strega 2020).
Amidst memories, shifts in time, correspondence with his one true, but never consummated, love Luisa Lattes (Bérenice Béjo), Marco, the main character, lives his adult life in Rome but returns to the place of his childhood, Florence, to challenge his implacable fate; in this, he is morally supported by Daniele Carradori (Nanni Moretti), psychoanalyst to his wife Marina (Kasia Smutniak), who helps Marco find the way to handle the most unexpected changes. Locations in Florence included: piazza Savonarola, piazza Santo Spirito, piazza del Mercato Nuovo, bridge of Santa Trinita.
Fandango, Les Films des Tournelles, Orange Studio, Rai Cinema
