Director:
Alessandro Angelini
Screenplay:
Angelo Carbone, Alessandro Angelini
Photography:
Arnaldo Catinari
Music:
Luca Tozzi
Cast:
Giorgio Pasotti, Giorgio
Colangeli, Michela Cescon, Katy Saunders, Sergio
Solli
Editing:
Massimo Fiocchi
Production:
Donatella Botti
for
BiancaFilm
and
Rai Cinema
Year: 2006. Running Time: 87’
A subtly nuanced, confidently
directed and superbly performed drama,
Salt Air
describes a father-son
relationship that develops under extreme conditions.
Fabio (Giorgio Pasotti), a young prison officer, has
the job of deciding whether inmates are allowed
temporary release from jail due to personal
circumstances. In the course of one such assessment,
he is shocked to discover that the prisoner he is
interviewing, Luigi Sparti (Giorgio Colangeli), is
his long-lost father, currently serving a term for
murder. Fabio is torn by mixed emotions about
whether to reveal the truth to Luigi and try to
construct some kind of new relationship. When he
decides, against the wishes of his family, to
interact with his father outside the prison, the
results are by turns rewarding, frustrating and
emotionally challenging. Although it uses elements
of the prison genre,
Salt Air sidesteps all
the clichés. This small but perfectly molded story
marks a confident debut for its director Alessandro
Angelini and is a reward for those who discover it.
