Caterina in the Big City
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| Caterina va in città (Caterina in the Big City) |
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| Directed by | Paolo Virzi |
| Produced by | Ricardo Tozzi Giovanni Stabilini Marco Chimenz |
| Written by | Paolo Virzi Francesco Bruni |
| Starring | Alice Teghil Sergio Castellitto Carolina Iaquaniello Federica Sbrenna Margherita Buy Manlio Germano |
| Distributed by | Empire Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 3, 2005 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | Italian |
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Caterina va in città (English title: Caterina in the Big City) is an Italian movie directed by Paolo Virzi and written by Virzi and Francesco Bruni.
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[edit] Plot
Caterina (Alice Teghil) is the 12-year-old only child of Giancarlo Iacovoni (Sergio Castellitto), an aspiring novelist and teacher of accounting at a country school in an area north of Rome that one character describes as "hillbilly country."
Iacovoni relocates his daughter Caterina and his timid, long-suffering wife Agata (Margherita Buy) to Rome after finally secured a long-coveted teaching position.
Once settled in the Italian capital, Caterina enrolls in a fast-track high school. Caterina immediately finds herself pulled between two competing student cliques: a leftist bohemian contingent headed by Margherita Rossi Chaillet and a right-leaning group headed by Daniela Germano.
Margherita's father is a noted intellectual and political writer. Daniela's father is a government minister who married into a wealthy family.
Margherita instantly adopts Caterina as her new best friend. The two girls attend rallies, visit graves of poets, and listen to Nick Cave records.
Caterina eventually has a disagreement with Margherita and begins to graviate toward Daniela's group. Daniela invites Caterina to join her at a wedding, where Caterina observes a group of Mafia-connected ex-fascists pay homage to Daniela's father Manlio.
Meanwhile, Caterina's father is trying to capitalize on his daughter's connections. When Caterina is friends with Margherita, Giancarlo asks his daughter to give Margherita a copy of his manuscript to pass along to her mother, a highly placed editor. Once Caterina becomes friends with Daniela, Giancarlo pays a visit to Daniela's father's office to solicit favors.
[edit] Cast
- Alice Teghil — Caterina Iacovoni
- Sergio Castellitto — Giancarlo Iacovoni
- Margherita Buy — Agata Iacovoni
- Federica Sbrenna — Daniela Germano
- Claudio Amendola — Manlio Germano
- Carolina Iaquaniello — Margherita Rossi Chaillet
- Zach Wallen — Edward
- Galatea Ranzi — Livia
[edit] Notes
Caterina in the Big City was shown at film festivals in 2003. Its general release in the United States was in 2005 at Landmark's Sunshine Theater in Manhattan.
The film has English subtitles.
