Zoom Zoom: The Professor
Francesco, the director, is from San Donato. A dreamer with a candid soul, he is inspired to make a film about his neighborhood through the thwarted-love story between a roma girl and a local gagè bo…
Zoom Zoom: The Professor
Francesco, the director, is from San Donato. A dreamer with a candid soul, he is inspired to make a film about his neighborhood through the thwarted-love story between a roma girl and a local gagè boy, a talented and promising boxer. To give his film a sense of local authenticity he decides to organize an acting laboratory. That's when the problems begin. First: no roma girl answers the ad for someone to play the love interest. As if that's not enough, all his attempts to meet roma girls are vain. The Gym is a fictional documentary that tells the story of a director's attempt to make a movie about the roma people of his home town, or rather "with roma people", as he himself specified. But, once he got in touch with their world, his project was called into question: their reality didn't correspond to what he had imagined. Gradually, and not without resistance, the director enters a world that he had previously known only through stereotypes, and discovers its value and beauty.
Zoom Zoom: The Professor
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Francesco, the director, is from San Donato. A dreamer with a candid soul, he is inspired to make a film about his neighborhood through the thwarted-love story between a roma girl and a local gagè boy, a talented and promising boxer. To give his film a sense of local authenticity he decides to organize an acting laboratory.
That's when the problems begin. First: no roma girl answers the ad for someone to play the love interest. As if that's not enough, all his attempts to meet roma girls are vain.
The Gym is a fictional documentary that tells the story of a director's attempt to make a movie about the roma people of his home town, or rather "with roma people", as he himself specified. But, once he got in touch with their world, his project was called into question: their reality didn't correspond to what he had imagined. Gradually, and not without resistance, the director enters a world that he had previously known only through stereotypes, and discovers its value and beauty..