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ONE MILLIMETER FROM THE HEART
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original title:
A UN MILLIMETRO DAL CUORE
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2002
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Ready (09/12/2002)
One millimeter from the heart talks about a love-story; of that particular moment in which a woman meets a man; of that unexpected, fleeting, mysterious attraction that will lead them necessarily in each other's arms. The hard and delicate dynamical relationship between two absolutely different human beings, deep dialectic that doesn’t erase the differences in the absurd and violent claim of impossible equality. The enigma of the different body seduces and corrupts towards something deeper, inner substance felt all around…, inner image, vague and precious…
A love-story seen from woman’s eyes, heart and words, that suggests a different woman image.
“ONE MILLIMETER FROM THE HEART” is also a story about friendship between two women based on mutual consideration, tenderness and sincerity.
The two women are looking for the same thing: to realize a female identity, a constant changing of their own inner reality, a difficult research of a passion feeling, never thought, whit the certitude of the possible existence of a man’s beauty that makes women free to love and be loved.
The male character represents an “ideal” image: a free man that moves without speaking, that in every body movement expresses that inner passion, that affective certainty; subconscious force, that is knowledge to be able to be loved by a woman. He sensed and pretends from her the same inner movements, different from his but equally deep. He will make an astounding smile surface on her face and then…

(written by the director)

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