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KRONOS

Production and year AIRcinema 2006/07
Format HDV
Length: 15 minutes TRAILER
Colour pal 16:9 stereo
Direction, editing, screenplay e photography: Vincenzo De Masi, help direction and direct shot: Gianluigi Chiarello. Music: Enrico Coniglio. Characters: Donato Chiarello and Marina Orlando.

KRONOS (shade line)
It is the time you lavished on your rose which makes your rose so important
It is the fox in The little Prince by Saint-Exupéry to reveal this secret to the little boy coming from the sky, from the asteroid B 612.
In Vincenzo De Masis short what is important is the same Saint-Exupérys idea, with the difference that instead of the rose there is a lemon plant which travels in the time and in the space with the main character (the girls father) and the girl.
The story is set in three days, close to Christmas holidays, when the father, separated from his wife, picks his twelve-year-old daughter up from school and he takes her for a ride with various stops in seaside places, till the first night spent in his car and the second one spent in an old house in the countryside. Thats all. It does not happen anything important from the point of view of the action. (apart from some childish games playing with little boats, sweets, poems, acrobatics and great views that pass through with the Albanian mountains that stand out at the horizon of a Levantine sea). Till the last act, the morning of the third day, when the father takes his radical decision.
What is known is that, previously, father and daughter planted another lemon shrub. It is in the fathers study that we can see the evocation of this scene, deduced from some photos taken maybe 7-8 years before from the mother who, in those photos, is obviously not there. Now she is not even in the fathers life as he divorced from her.
The element of continuity is the vase of the lemon tree, another shrub to be planted, symbol of the life that goes on, evergreen and ever-sour. It is for the daughter the task of planting it and she does it in order to hug and understand her fathers dream.
The constant stream of love, symbolized by the lemon plant that travels with them, has to cope with the decision to put down roots, tostop it.
I dont know what kind of colour this short has. It is not a thriller, it is not a noir but there is the red of the passion and the yellow of the lemon. The last one yes, there is in full. But it is on a line where everything can happen, a shade line, where the game turns first into hope, then in bitterness and finally in Kronos.
Donato Chiarello

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• vincenzo de masi
• donato chiarello
• salento
• director
• corsano
• lecce
• puglia.