Don’t Move

Don’t Move [Non Ti Muovere] 8pm Tuesday 26.09.06

Dir: Sergio Castellitto Italy / Spain / UK 2004 117 mins 16

Starring: Penelope Cruz, Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini, Angela Finocchiaro, Marco Giallini, Pietro De Silva, Vittoria Piancastelli, Elena Perino

A consummate performance as well as top direction by Italian actor Sergio Castellitto is at the centre of a controversial drama dealing with the tangled sexual relationship between a married surgeon and an Albanian cleaner woman, played by Penélope Cruz.
The tensely constructed narrative of lust and love unfolds as a surgeon (Castellitto) recounts the crucial moments of his life as his own teenage daughter lies hovering between life and death on the operating table after a serious accident.
Castellitto plays a middle-aged surgeon named Timoteo who recklessly (and violently) initiates a love affair with Italia, a destitute woman magnificently portrayed by a virtually unrecognizable Penélope Cruz.
In his second outing as a director, Sergio Castellitto takes the viewer on an emotional-filled ride and brings a violently masculine perspective to the story. Cruz’s performance as an ordinary, rather ugly Albanian girl who becomes the passion of the surgeon’s life is bound to surprise viewers in this unexpected and very touching role. - Jameson Dublin International Film Festival