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Leaves of Grass The Little one (La pivellina)
USA
Edward Norton plays twin brothers in this comedic thriller set in rural
AUSTRIA / ITALY
In their first narrative film, documentarians Tizza Covi and Rainer
Director: Tim Blake Nelson Oklahoma. As Bill Kincaid, he’s an Ivy League professor of philosophy Director: Tizza Covi Frimmel reveal the touching private world of a European circus troupe
Producers: Tim Blake Nelson, who has gotten about as far away, in every sense, as he can from his Producer: Rainer Frimmel
spending the winter in a muddy trailer park on the outskirts of Rome.
Elie Cohn, Kristina Dubin, John Langley,
aging hippie of a mother (Susan Sarandon) and unstable brother Brady
Screenwriter: Tizza Covi
When weathered, orange-haired Patty (Patrizia Gerardi) discovers a
Bill Migliore, Edward Norton
back home. On the tenure track to academic glory, he’s admired widely
Cinematographer: Rainer Frimmel
two-year-old abandoned in a park, she takes the toddler in, and in
Screenwriter: Tim Blake Nelson
and being ardently courted by Harvard. When he hears that Brady
Editor: Tizza Covi
caring for her the circus folk grope their way toward a new sense of
MS: A to Z
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
has been murdered, he reluctantly interrupts his work to return to
Cast:
famiglia.
MS: A to Z
Patrizia Gerardi, Walter Saabel,
il Editor: Michelle Botticelli
Oklahoma for the burial – only to discover that his loony, dangerous,
Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa
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Cast: Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, and equally brilliant doppelgänger is very much alive and has lured him
2009 / color / 100 min.
With echoes of Fellini and De Sica, this observant slice of life is stocked
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Keri Russell, Melanie Lynskey,
there for nefarious purposes. with unforgettable characters: Patty’s wary husband, the circus clown
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Ty Burrell, Richard Dreyfuss
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Walter (Walter Saabel); a sweet-tempered adolescent (Tairo Caroli) who
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2009 / color / 105 min.
Redneck Brady Kincaid is a master of hydroponic pot cultivation with
Tizza CoVi
sets aside his fantasies of Pamela Anderson to tend the child; and the
big ambitions and a big problem with the local drug lord (Richard
Tizza Covi lived in Paris and Berlin
little one herself (Asia Crippa), who captivates us as much as she does
Dreyfuss) – which he just needs a little help from his brother to solve. before studying photography in her new guardians.
TiM BLaKE nELSon
Despite his growing attraction to Janet, an English teacher and poet
Vienna, then moving to Rome to work
An actor, director, writer, producer,
played by Keri Russell, Bill has no intention of sticking around – but
as a photographer. She has made two
Tizza and Frimmel, who are married in real life, have visited the circus
and editor, Tim Blake Nelson has documentaries with Rainer Frimmel;
enjoyed multifaceted success in the
when he is implicated in a murder, he has no choice. For all his high-
The Little One is her first narrative
before: their acclaimed 2005 documentary Babooska was also set there.
film industry. Born and raised in Tulsa,
powered intellect and the distance he has tried to maintain from his
feature film.
Using available light and, for the most part, handheld cameras, they
Oklahoma, Nelson attended Brown family, he is trapped by violent circumstances that begin to scramble his show us the ties that bind in a land of outsiders, warmed by Italian
University and is best known for his
carefully ordered existence. fellow feeling and sparkling dialogue. Along the way, they even throw
stand-out performances in such films as
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and
rainEr FriMMEL
in some hilarious asides about pizza, Mussolini, and Leonardo da Vinci.
The Good Girl (2002).
Norton – who also did a double-identity turn in Primal Fear (for which Born in Vienna in 1971, Rainer Frimmel
he received his first Oscar nomination) – makes the contrast between
studied photography with his partner,
Tizza Covi. Frimmel and Covi founded
Filmography
the scholar and the druggie so fluid and vivid that it is easy to forget he
their own production company, Vento
The Grey Zone (2001) is playing them both. Tulsa-born writer/director Tim Blake Nelson (The
Film, in 2002.
O (2001)
Grey Zone, SDFF 25), who also plays Brady’s best friend, wrote Leaves
Eye of God (1997)
of Grass with Norton in mind. At the time, Norton says, he was taking
Filmography
a break – but when he read the script, he knew it was exactly what he Babooska (2005)
wanted to do next.
That Is All (2001)
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