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At home with Festa del Cinema Artistic Director Antonio Monda Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

From playing a role in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, having recent Le Conversazioni with Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Zadie Smith, Patrick McGrath, Isabella Rossellini, Salman Rushdie, Julie Taymor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Marina Abramovic and Daniel Libeskind, to co-founding Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, with this year's highlights including Ivano de Matteo's The Dinner (I Nostri Ragazzi) and Lamberto Sanfelice's Chlorine (Cloro), starring Sara Serraiocco - Antonio Monda has done a great deal already. Now, he is appointed the Artistic Director of the Rome International Film Festival.

Isabella Rossellini with Antonio Monda in the Morgan Library & Museum Green Room Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

After Antonio had just returned from the Cannes Film Festival, we spoke about the challenges he looks forward to, how Gay Talese and Jonathan Franzen surprised him, a Renzo Piano connection,...

Sara Serraiocco's star shines in Lamberto Sanfelice's Chlorine and Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Salvo Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Attending the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema lunch at Barbetta were filmmakers Francesca Archibugi - An Italian Name (Il Nome Del figlio); Duccio Chiarini - Short Skin; Eleonora Danco - N-Capace / N-Able; Cristina Comencini - Latin Lover; Ivano de Matteo - The Dinner (I Nostri Ragazzi); Masbedo (Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni) - The Lack and actors Claudio Santamaria in Ermanno Olmi's Greenery Will Bloom Again (Torneranno I Prati); Adriano Giannini in Claudio Noce's The Ice Forest (La Foresta Di Ghiaccio) and Lamberto Sanfelice's Chlorine (Cloro) star, Sara Serraiocco.

Jenny with Flavia (Chiara Romano): "I spent a lot of time with the girls who do synchronized swimming."

The Italian cinema delegation in town was joined by Antonio Monda, the newly appointed Artistic Director of...

From Twirls to Breaststrokes: Sanfelice’s Debut Retains Rhythm but Keeps Distance

Utilizing the seldomly spotlighted sport of synchronized swimming as the backdrop, Cloro serves as a coming of age story for a young girl who suddenly crosses the threshold of young adult to adult due to familial circumstances. As the debut for co-writer/director Lamberto Sanfelice, the Italian language film finds its footing in its ability to develop without inflation and retain a keen simplicity and eye. Despite its acute approach, it ultimately follows closely a stoic sensibility primarily found within the European exports and does little to stand out from its equivalents.

After an abrupt move from picturesque seatown Ostia, Jenny (Sara Serraiocco) becomes the primary caretaker for her younger brother Fabrizio (Anatol Sassi) and mentally unstable father Alfio (Andrea Vergoni). These realities hinder her ability to continue her training as a synchronized swimmer though she does her...

Title: Cloro Director: Lamberto Sanfelice Starring: Sara Serraiocco, Anatol Sassi, Ivan Franek, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Andrea Vergoni. Chlorine is the literal translation of the movie’s title, which exemplifies a destiny in a swimming pool. This first feature film by Lamberto Sanfelice, has been presented both at 2015’s Sundance Film Festival (in the category World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation section. ‘Cloro’ is the story about Jenny, a seventeen year old who dreams of becoming a synchronised swimmer. But her carefree adolescent life in Ostia, a seacoast town near Rome, is shaken by the sudden death of her mother. With a mentally [ Read More ]

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Cloro

Written by Elisa Amoruso and Lamberto Sanfelice

Directed by Lamberto Sanfelice

Italy, 2015

Cloro (that translates to Chlorine in English) is a film that has admirable qualities but is ultimately a dull affair. There are moments that director Lamberto Sanfelice makes effective, but for the most part he spends the duration of the feature seemingly uninterested in his own material. Jenny (Sara Serraiocco) is a 17-year old synchronized swimmer who is forced to uproot her life and move to the mountains to take care of her little brother and father, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown of some sort. Here she waits until she can return to her synchronized swimming team.

Sara Serraiocco gives a great performance in the lead of Jenny, but she isn’t enough to redeem the film from being relatively forgettable. Her eyes are burrowed into her face, and she makes the audience search for...

Competing in the World Dramatic Competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, "Cloro" marks the debut feature of Italian writer-director Lamberto Sanfelice. Although he only has three previous short films to his name, one in his home country and two during a summer stint at Nyu, Sanfelice's emotional first feature, which will also play at Berlinale, has many anticipating a breakthrough for the up-and-coming director. "Cloro" stars Sara Serraiocco as Jenny, a 17-year-old with dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. When family events turn her life upside down, she is forced to move to a remote location and tend to her ill father and young brother. Caught between the responsibility of her family and the prospects of her own dreams, it won't be long before Jenny is forced to put her future together. Watch an exclusive clip from the Sundance drama film below: Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Sundance Bible...