Euforia
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2019
June 6 - 12, 2019
When Ettore (Valerio Mastandrea), a public-school teacher of modest means, is diagnosed with an illness, he goes to stay with his brother Matteo (Riccardo Scamarcio) in his sprawling Roman bachelor pad, where the two men must reckon with long-unresolved family tensions and resentments, in actor-director Valeria Golino’s quietly wrenching drama.
Q&A with Valerio Mastandrea on June 8
Acclaimed leading men Riccardo Scamarcio and Valerio Mastandrea play Matteo and Ettore, two adult brothers living drastically different lives, in actor-director Valeria Golino’s quietly wrenching new drama. When Ettore, a public-school teacher and father of modest means, is diagnosed with an illness, he goes to stay with cosmopolitan Matteo in his sprawling Roman bachelor pad, and Matteo takes charge of overseeing his brother’s medical care. Between appointments with doctors and visits from Ettore’s wife (Isabella Ferrari) and his mistress (Jasmine Trinca), the brothers reckon with long-unresolved tensions and unspoken resentments, and face the implications of Ettore’s failing health, against the thrumming backdrop of the sunny Roman cityscape.
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