Dieci inverni (2009)

Director:

Valerio Mieli

Writers:

Valerio Mieli (story)
Valerio Mieli (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

10 December 2009 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms. |

Plot Keywords:

Moscow Russia | University | Kissing | Airport | Van

Awards:

4 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Isabella Ragonese	...	Camilla
Michele Riondino	...	Silvestro
Glen Blackhall	...	Simone
Sergei Zhigunov	...	Fjodor
Sergey Nikonenko	...	Prof. Korsakov
Liuba Zaizeva	...	Liuba
Alice Torriani	...	Clara
Sara Lazzaro	...	Maria Antonietta
Francesco Brandi	...	Niccolò
Luca Avagliano	...	Ermanno
Francesca Cuttica	...	Elena
Roberto Nobile	...	Camilla's Father
Luis Molteni	...	Doctor
Vinicio Capossela	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Waléra Kanischtscheff	...	Victor (voice)

Directed by
Valerio Mieli

Writing credits
Valerio Mieli		(story)
Valerio Mieli		(screenplay) &
Davide Lantieri		(screenplay) &
Isabella Aguilar		(screenplay)
Federica Pontremoli		(screenplay supervision) &
Aleksandr Lebedev		(screenplay supervision)

Produced by
Roberto Bessi	....	producer
Elisabetta Bruscolini	....	producer
Elio Cecchin	....	line producer
Lora Del Monte	....	line producer
Uliana Kovaleva	....	associate producer
Domenico Maselli	....	line producer
Igor Porshnev	....	associate producer
Maria Sharabidze	....	line producer: Russia
Rezo Sharabidze	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Francesco De Luca
Alessandro Forti

Cinematography by
Marco Onorato

Film Editing by
Luigi Mearelli

Casting by
Béatrice Kruger
Veronika Mancino

Production Design by
Mauro Vanzati

Costume Design by
Andrea Cavalletto

Makeup Department
Donatella Borghesi	....	key hair stylist
Valentina Iannuccilli	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Irene Abrescia	....	unit manager
Marianna De Liso	....	unit manager
Alessandro Del Vecchio	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Andrea Piazza	....	second assistant director
Ciro Scognamiglio	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Filippo Ercolani	....	boom operator
Marco Giacomelli	....	dialogue editor
Andrea Roversi	....	sound re-recording mixer
Fabio Russo	....	assistant boom operator
Guido Spizzico	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Roberto de Franceschi	....	camera operator
Francesca Lamura	....	second assistant camera
Leone Orfeo	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Dejana Sremcevic	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Fabrizio Conti	....	colorist
Emily Greene	....	first assistant editor
Debora Pignotti	....	apprentice editor

Other crew
Olivia Alighiero	....	press
Francesca Cozzolino	....	production secretary
Lucille Cristaldi	....	script supervisor
Linda Dombrovszky	....	director: behind-the-scenes
Tanja Lunardelli	....	production secretary
Federica Pontremoli	....	script supervisor
Flavia Schiavi	....	press

Production Companies

• Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (as Centro Sperimentale di Cinamatografia Production)
• Rai Cinema
• United Film Company (UFC)
• Comune di Venezia (support)
• Regione del Veneto (sponsor)
• Biennale di Venezia, La (sponsor)
• Comune di Roma (support)
• Venice Film Commission (support)
• City of Moscow (sponsor)
• Consorzio per la Tutela del Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene (support)

Distributors

• Bellissima Films (2012) (France) (theatrical)
• Bolero Film (2009) (Italy) (theatrical)
• RaiTrade (2009) (worldwide) (all media)

Also Known As:

"Desyat zim" - Russia
"Ten Winters" - International (English title) (imdb display title)
"Dix hivers à Venise" - France (imdb display title)

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Italy | Russia

Language:

Italian | Russian | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company:

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Winter by name, wintry, cold and dark by nature

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I'd hoped to enjoy this movie, be engaged by it... sadly neither happened.

It was my wedding anniversary and first film for the 2010 Italian Film Festival playing in Australia in Sep/Oct 2010. So I was looking for something romantic. (In the synopsis Ten Winters is described as a romantic drama, it's definitely not a comedy). With the festival you hope your first picks are good ones as this is encouraging to see more. When the first one like this is a bit of downer it cast doubts over going to other screenings.

For me I knew we were in trouble on 2 or 3 fronts. Firstly the leading players, secondly the locations. What I've seen described elsewhere as a quaint cottage on one of the Venice Islands that the story in Venice is largely centred around. I'd hoped they might have been on the Venice Lido somewhere off the main street. But the cottage just off the end of the pier where the ferry docked looked like a fishing shack, cold, unloved, unappealing.

Of the players the lead actress reminded be of Isla Fisher with the personality turned down. I liked the supporting actresses better, especially the ones who played Silvestros other girlfriends. Likewise with the men. the leading character was a bit geeky. I preferred the actor and the character who played Camilla's boyfriend when she went to live in Russia.

Being an Italian/Russian co-production the film moves to and fro Venice and Russia. Sadly I was looking for a romantic film. This was more drama, with a feeling of back and forth and going around in circles. Perhaps with hindsight I should have seen it coming. Ten Winters as the English title name is a clue. I obviously was after 10 Springs or 10 Summers preferring my films to be light and brighter than this one. But 10 Winters we were stuck with and 10 fairly long ones at that.

I guess the purpose of IMDb is to tell it as you see it, so this was that for me.

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From the Italian Film Festival booklet here's their synopsis

"Ten Winters (Dieci inverni) A decade of missed chances beguiles and rewards the quietly unassuming debut from Valerio Mieli who won the David di Donatello (Italian Academy) Award 2010 for Best First Time Director for this moving tale of two friends who secretly have deeper feelings for one another. TEN WINTERS screened in the Venice International Film Festival's Controcampo sidebar.

Winter, 1999. Camilla (Isabella Ragonese, La Nostra Vita IFF10), a student of Slavic literature, leaves home to take up residence in a semi-derelict house in an overcast Venice devoid of tourists. On the last leg of her journey - a ferry to her island - she's spotted by a would-be Romeo, Silvestro (Michele Riondino, The Past Is a Foreign Land, IFF08). Despite getting the brush-off, Silvestro follows Camilla to her home and manages to insinuate himself as a guest for the night but he fails in his gentle efforts to seduce her. Over the next ten years, Silvestro and Camilla develop a strong bond, and the narrative captures a beautifully painful, reflective push and pull between two souls who keep finding their way back to each other.

Charming performances by leads Michele Riondino and Isabella Ragonese combine with a restrained, intelligent atmosphere to create an involving romantic drama which echoes the mantra "Would've, could've, should've" and highlights that, in life, timing is everything"