The lives of Enzo and Mary cross again after years of absence. Their invincible love, born behind bars and surviving the trials of distance, returns to walk through the livid alleys of a Genoa out of time. Pietro Marcello's second work is a unique and fascinating experience, a cinematic jewel that interweaves the forms of documentary and fiction to tell the lives of outcasts and marginalized people with extraordinary delicacy. Between early-century home movies and dives from the Quarto cliff, a flow of images and emotions takes shape that go straight to the heart. Co-produced by the Jesuits of the San Marcellino Foundation, a very low-budget film that has collected awards throughout Europe (winner of the Turin Film Festival, it triumphed at the Forum of the Berlin Film Festival). Zavattini claimed that Italian cinema died when screenwriters and directors stopped taking the tram. Marcello certainly takes the train (he shot his first beautiful feature film entirely on night express trains). Maybe that's why he manages to approach the most intimate and painful aspects of his protagonists with such measure and dignity. Italian cinema is not dead.
Born in Caserta in 1976, Pietro Marcello trained as assistant director to Leonardo Di Costanzo and assistant director to Sergio Vitolo. From his first works (Il Tempo dei Magliari, Il cantiere, La baracca, Grand Bassan) specialized critics paid close attention to his documentaries. In 2007 he directed l passaggio della linea, a documentary shot entirely on express trains that cross Italy. The film was presented at the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section and won the Pasinetti Doc Award and the Special Mention Doc/it Award. In 2009 he made La bocca del lupo, obtaining numerous awards at the main international documentary festivals (Turin Film Festival, Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris, Berlin Film Festival, Buenos Aires Film Festival). In Italy it won the Nastro d’Argento and the David di Donatello for best documentary of the year.