ROMEO KEN JULIET

Short film, Italy, 2010, 15'.
Title: ROMEO Ken JULIET, L'amore adolescente

Written and directed by Diego Monfredini
With: Nicole Pelizzari, Lorenzo Tirelli
and with the partecipation of Irene Sposato, Marco Morsia, Riccardo Marazzi, Maria Novella Balzarelli, Francesco Salerno, Dario Soresi, Matteo Beoni, Raul Asswipe, Marco Bongiorni, Claudio Mellina, Filippo Soresi, Elia Vajana, Cecilia Losi, Francesco Fanelli.

Winner Best Film in Nonantola Film Festival_2010_I will be brief

Soundtrack:
"A sangue freddo", Teatro degli Orrori (La Tempesta Records). ilteatrodegliorrori.com/
"Strangers", "Take hope", Kobenhavn store (42 Records). kobenhavnstore.com/
"La prima", "Chiesetta", "Canzone che cresce", "Mi disgelo", Inversione Bastiana. sites.google.com/​site/​inversionebastiana/
"Ken Saro Theme", Diego Monfredini.

Special thanks to
Andrea Rocca, audio consultancy
Jacopo Rondinelli, videomaker "A sangue freddo"
Pierpaolo Capovilla and his "Teatro degli Orrori".

Inspired to the "balcony" of Juliet and the ineptitude of Romeo.

Dedicated to the memory of Ken Saro Wiwa. guardian.co.uk/​world/​2009/​jun/​08/​nigeria-usa

Watch the trailer: youtube.com/​user/​DiegoMonfredini#p/​u/​0/​anXGAfhkLSU


Juliet is a young journalist on a short term contract. She is working on an article regarding the murder of the nigerian poet and activist Ken Saro Wiwa, killed fifteen years before.
Her private life is precarious as well, in fact the relashionship with her boyfriend is coming to an end, and she gets involved “virtually” with a stranger. He plays up to her with shakespearean verses on a chat line under the nickname of “Romeo”.
She leaves the city for the countryside, where she wants to abandon herself to the virtual adventure, but there she has to face her past.