Where it was filmed 'I Told You So'

Te l’avevo detto, second film directed by Ginevra Elkann; produced by The Apartment, Tenderstories, Small Forward Productions, Rai Cinema; and starring Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Danny Huston, Sofia Panizzi, Alba Rohrwacher, Greta Scacchi, Riccardo Scamarcio, is set on a January weekend when a sudden heatwave hits Rome. While the sun is initially pleasant, the heat quickly reaches danger levels with people and animals losing control.

The characters are forced to confront the difficulties that they have cleverly avoided for a lifetime, whether through food, sex, drugs, religion or plastic surgery. Now they no longer have an escape. They are all so concentrated on their own problems and needs that they don’t notice that the world around them is about to fall to pieces.  All they can see is themselves and not what is around them.

"I chose to set the film in Rome because it is the 'Eternal City' and has a sort of solemnity and universality that I feel is in harmony with the themes of the film" states the director.

Rome, as captured by Vladan Radovic, is enveloped in a cloud that makes everything ochre-coloured, it grows and weighs down heavily becoming so thick that the characters lose their sense of direction.

Framing events beneath this cloud are recognisable corners of the Eternal City: a busy piazza Venezia with the Vittoriano monument; piazzale Flaminio, with a glimpse of the entrance to Villa Borghese; piazzale del Verano, where Father Bill takes his sister Fran to bury their mother. This, despite the fact that the deceased had wanted to be buried in the non-Catholic cemetery in Testaccio, next to the Cestia Pyramid where the siblings come by night.