

“The definitive movie about pre-cinema.”
The unknown and fascinating origins of cinema and audiovisuals from prehistory to the beginning of the 20th century.
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Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
ES

Effort to construct an audio-visual dance between the body of an 90-year old man and the body of his house, that has become an extension of himself.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
Himself