Enea

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Directed by Director's notes
  • Pietro Castellitto
Year
  • 2023
Length
  • 1h 57'
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Directed by
  • Pietro Castellitto
Year
  • 2023
Length
  • 1h 57'
Download

Pressbook

Cast
  • Pietro Castellitto
  • Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio
  • Benedetta Porcaroli
  • Chiara Noschese
  • Giorgio Montanini
  • Adamo Dionisi
 
  • Matteo Branciamore
  • Cesare Castellitto
  • Sergio Castellitto
  • Paolo Giovannucci
  • Clara Galanti
Synopsis

Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that his name bears. He does it to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of the rules, on the other side of morality, there’s an ocean of humanity and symbols to discover. Enea and Valentino will soar over it to the furthest extremes. But the drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story that speaks of something else: a melancholy father, a brother who has conflicts at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a world made of glass. It is between the cracks of everyday life that Enea and Valentino’s adventure gradually finds reprieve. An adventure that may seem criminal to others, but which for them is, and will be, above all, one of friendship and love.

Director's notes
  • Enea is a gangster movie without the gangsters. A genre story without a genre. The criminal element flows silently in the background and suddenly seeps into the cracks of everyday relationships, overwhelming the unsuspecting protagonists. The idea was to create a narrative in which the point of view of the spectator corresponds to the perspective of those who engage in drug trafficking: at one point you can suddenly win, at another, just as suddenly, you can die, and no one will ever know why. Enea and Valentini, the film’s main characters are moved by the mystery of youth. They do what they do neither for money nor for power. Rather, they want to see some action, put their hearts to the test, figure to what extent they can feel alivetoday, at the dawn of this new millennium saturated with narratives of wars and terrorist attacks they have only experienced second hand.

    Pietro Castellitto
Written by
  • Pietro Castellitto
Produced by
  • THE APARTMENT PICTURES
  • VISION DISTRIBUTION
  • FRENESY
In collaboration with
  • GIOVANE FILM
  • SKY
  • NETFLIX
Distributed by
  • Vision Distribution
Director's notes
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Enea is a gangster movie without the gangsters. A genre story without a genre. The criminal element flows silently in the background and suddenly seeps into the cracks of everyday relationships, overwhelming the unsuspecting protagonists. The idea was to create a narrative in which the point of view of the spectator corresponds to the perspective of those who engage in drug trafficking: at one point you can suddenly win, at another, just as suddenly, you can die, and no one will ever know why. Enea and Valentini, the film’s main characters are moved by the mystery of youth. They do what they do neither for money nor for power. Rather, they want to see some action, put their hearts to the test, figure to what extent they can feel alivetoday, at the dawn of this new millennium saturated with narratives of wars and terrorist attacks they have only experienced second hand.

Pietro Castellitto