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The Cézanne Affair

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The Cézanne Affair
Directed bySergio Rubini
Written bySergio Rubini
Domenico Starnone
Carla Cavalluzzi
StarringSergio Rubini
Riccardo Scamarcio
Valeria Golino
CinematographyFabio Cianchetti
Music byNicola Piovani
Distributed by01 Distribution
Release date
  • 2009 (2009)
Running time
120 min
LanguageItalian

The Cézanne Affair (Italian: L'uomo nero) is a 2009 Italian comedy drama film written, directed and starred by Sergio Rubini.[1] For her performance in the film, the actress Valeria Golino was nominated in the category for best actress at the Nastro d'Argento Awards.[2]

Plot

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The plot of the film is a flashback by Gabriele Rossetti, a young teacher who returns to Bari upon the death of his father Ernesto. Ernesto Rossetti was the stationmaster in the small Apulian village of San Vito dei Normanni. He lived happily with his wife and his little son, Gabriele. However, Ernesto had artistic ambitions and was fond of Paul Cézanne's painting after he saw the artist's water colour self-portrait in Bari. Ernesto wanted to make an exhibition in his homage to the country, but the local art critic, truncated and conceited, stunned the exhibition with a newspaper article.

Ernesto did not win for himself. He copied Cézanne's work, neglecting the family especially Gabriele, who began to grow afraid of him and hate him. On his son's birthday, Ernesto showed the local art critic the new picture; and he again negatively commented the work, stirring up Ernesto's wrath, giving an inconvenient shock to his son Gabriele. When Gabriele grew up, he eventually discovered that Ernesto had deceived everyone with the second painting, which he replaced with the original of Paul Cézanne, in order to prove the deceit of the villagers and the critic.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Natasha Senjanovic (15 December 2009). "L'Uomo Nero - Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
  2. ^ "Nastri d'Argento - tutte le cinquine". La Repubblica. May 27, 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
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