SONO POSITIVO
Italy

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17/10 18:00 CINEARTE
19/10 16:00 MASP 1- GRANDE AUDITÓRIO
24/10 16:15 CINESESC
31/10 17:30 SALA CINEMATECA


     A hilarious black humor comedy on Aids. An Italian family from the south, and typically unlucky, discover they are seropositive. One by one, they try to discover who started the contagion.
     Suspicion eventually brings a network of infidelity and confusion to the surface. All of them keep up their sexual adventures: the hypochondriac husband, owner of a store for sanitary goods, his frustrated wife, his gay brother, and an aggregate of the family. Paradoxically, rather than being a motive for sadness, the disease is an occasion to rediscover happiness and accept the nature of each. Tragedy thus provides an amusing glimpse into human relationships.
     Joe D'Amato, director of horror films from the seventies, has a special participation as a hardcore film maker. This was his last contribution to cinema: he died in January last year on his way back from a trash convention in Las Vegas.

   
 
Director : Cristiano Bortone
Screenplay : Cristiano Bortone, Cristiana Farina
Cinematographer : Marco Onorato, Mercedes Porter
Edition : Patrizio Marone
Cast : Giovanni Esposito, Paolo Sassanelli, Manrico Gammarota, Cristina Liberati, Nino Frassica, Aristide Massaccesi
Producer : Daniele Mazzocca, Cristiano Bortone, Gianluca Arcopinto
Production : Orisa Produzioni S.r.l. Via Marsilio Ficino, 5, 00136 Roma, Italy
Tel.: 39 06 397 50996
Fax: 39 06 39889715
  Col., 96min., 1999
 

Graduated by the University of Southern California and by New York University, in 1990. As from then, he has directed and produced several short films, documentaries, and productions for television. His first feature, Oasi, was presented at the Venice Film Festival. Sono Positivo is his second feature.