LA SIGNORA COL ROSSETTO
THE LADY WITH LIPSTICK
Synopsis
Archival footage of a family turns into the poignant testimony of a woman who sees herself fifty years later. The director’s grandmother, now aged, shares her memories about life as a woman, the hopefulness of the 1960s, and the changing landscape of a town in the south of Italy troubled by a polluting steel mill. As the past is fading, remembering becomes seeing for the first time.
Info
Year: 2024
Country: Switzerland, Italy
Type: Documentary
Duration: 09:00
Formats: DCP, H264, ProRes
Spoken language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Team
Director: Francesca Coppola
Screenwriter: Francesca Coppola
Producers: Andrea Lavagnini, Francesca Coppola
Cast: Adele Mastroleo, Valeria De Vellis, Raffaella De Vellis, Franco De Vellis
Voice: Adele Mastroleo
Editing: Francesca Coppola
Sound mixing: Massimo Mariani
Director's Bio
Born in Milan in 1988, Francesca Coppola is a writer and director based in Rome. Her practice includes work with film, archival material and words exploring the notions of biography, ethics and memory. She holds a BFA in Film from the School of Visual Arts of New York City and an MA in Literature from La Sapienza University in Rome. She is an active member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and she works as an archive producer for documentaries, collaborating with audiovisual archives all over the world. Her short films, I Fenicotteri (2013) and Jonny Come Lately (2015) have screened at New Directors/New Films, New Orleans Film Festival and IFP. She lived in Mexico, in the United States and in Germany. In 2019 she published a book of poems, Where the sirens live. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Filmmaker Magazine, NY Tyrant and FENCE, among others.
Director's Filmography
The Lady with Lipstick (2024, short)
I Fenicotteri (2013, short)
Jonny Come Lately (2016, short)
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