Beyond
Exposé - The protagonist is an art and fashion photographer, and a world-renowned award-winning director. He is shooting a film in the picturesque town of Comacchio (also called "Little Venice") in the beautiful Italian province of Ferrara. Despite his professional satisfaction and his successes, and despite the admiration of women, he feels that his life is incomplete. One thing is missing... The models he is filming are omnipresent... They symbolize all the temptations he has experienced throughout his artistic existence and not - constantly tempt him and provoke in him a powerful inner turmoil. "It" happens while he is filming 10 beautiful models. "It" is something unexpected - or perhaps, a manifestation of some deep longing? The filmmaker finds himself, almost magically, taking stock of his existence up to this moment - an existence that has given him so many satisfactions, so many adventures, so many temptations - some he repressed and others not. But what has always been missing is the true love that can complete him. And so, he finds himself inside a forest that metaphorically symbolizes his existence, and (perhaps) his future as well. There he encounters and relives his past, his present, and his immediate future. Among these images, a "special" woman appears. The other women in his life try to seduce him away from the one woman that represents true love. It is she who, because of his love for her, will banish all the temptations personified in the models. Eventually, he finds his true self and discovers the path that will unite him with his beloved, the woman he has always sought without knowing it. The two lovers kiss and are "reborn" to a new life.
- Runtime
- 15m
- Released
- 2023
Details
Release year: 2023
Storyline
Exposé - The protagonist is an art and fashion photographer, and a world-renowned award-winning director. He is shooting a film in the picturesque town of Comacchio (also called "Little Venice") in the beautiful Italian province of Ferrara. Despite his professional satisfaction and his successes, and despite the admiration of women, he feels that his life is incomplete. One thing is missing... The models he is filming are omnipresent... They symbolize all the temptations he has experienced throughout his artistic existence and not - constantly tempt him and provoke in him a powerful inner turmoil. "It" happens while he is filming 10 beautiful models. "It" is something unexpected - or perhaps, a manifestation of some deep longing? The filmmaker finds himself, almost magically, taking stock of his existence up to this moment - an existence that has given him so many satisfactions, so many adventures, so many temptations - some he repressed and others not. But what has always been missing is the true love that can complete him. And so, he finds himself inside a forest that metaphorically symbolizes his existence, and (perhaps) his future as well. There he encounters and relives his past, his present, and his immediate future. Among these images, a "special" woman appears. The other women in his life try to seduce him away from the one woman that represents true love. It is she who, because of his love for her, will banish all the temptations personified in the models. Eventually, he finds his true self and discovers the path that will unite him with his beloved, the woman he has always sought without knowing it. The two lovers kiss and are "reborn" to a new life.
Top credits
- Rossano B. Maniscalchi — Self - Protagonist today
- Alessandra Pisano — Self - the new love
- Nicolò Tomasi — Protagonist Past
- Jasmin Stefanazi — Becky - an earlier love