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Paolo Scarfò

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Marta is a young, single, professional woman who lives a modest and uneventful life contained by the rhythm of her job and obligations. The casual reappearance of an old lipstick, which falls on to the snow white basin, staining it a passionate red leaves her strangely disturbed. With the force of a hypnotic attraction the sight of the lipstick pushes Marta through a door long forgotten to a place where fragments of her old life still survive. Like a beacon lit at night the lipstick seems to have a life if it’s own and stirs in Marta’s memory a series of images and sensations that reveal an aspect of her character unusually free, expressive, and transgressive. Pretty soon the vision of the “new” Marta entwines with’ the real Marta and the reckless ambiguity of the first contaminates the apparent integrity of the other upsetting her equilibrium. Marta slides adrift in her consciousness more and more fascinated by the evocative attraction of the lipstick till she reaches the darkest most private part of herself which she had thought closed and long forgotten and is now forced to confront.
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Paolo Scarfò is known for L'ultimo piano (2003), This Is Me (2015) and Summer Lows (2020).
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    • Known for

    L'ultimo piano
    • Cinematographer
    • 2003
    This Is Me
    • Cinematographer
    • 2015
    Summer Lows
    • Cinematographer
    • 2020
    Homebound Train
    Short
    • Cinematographer
    • 1999

    Credits

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    Cinematographer

    • Summer Lows
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Après Paradise
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2020
    • Philippe Petit in Previous (2017)
      Previous
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2017
    • This Is Me
      • director of photography
      • 2015
    • Lipstick
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2009
    • Palestrina - Princeps musicae (2009)
      Palestrina - Princeps musicae
      7.0
      • photography
      • 2009
    • An Archeologist's Sunday
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2008
    • L'ultimo piano
      • Cinematographer
      • 2003
    • Homebound Train
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 1999

    Director

    • Isola degli sguardi
      • regista
      • 2024
    • Summer Lows
      • Director
      • 2020
    • This Is Me
      • co-director
      • 2015
    • Uneternal City
      • segment director
      • 2008
    • L'ultimo piano
      • Director
      • 2003
    • Cristian Castro: Lloviendo estrellas
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2002
    • Eros Ramazzotti: Per me per sempre
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2001
    • Homebound Train
      Short
      • Director
      • 1999

    Producer

    • Summer Lows
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Après Paradise
      Short
      • producer
      • 2020
    • This Is Me
      • producer
      • 2015
    • Lipstick
      Short
      • producer
      • 2009
    • Uneternal City
      • co-producer
      • 2008
    • L'ultimo piano
      • producer
      • 2003
    • Homebound Train
      Short
      • producer
      • 1999

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