Veleno, a long goodbye
DOCUMENTARY|90'|COLOR|DCP|IN DEVELOPMENT
a film by Rocco Di mento
production 5e6 (ITA)
SYNOPSIS
With Veleno, Rocco Di Mento concludes his trilogy on human emotions, a cathartic journey that began with The Blunder of Love and continued with Toro. While the previous chapters investigated love and identity, this final installment stems from a physical symptom: the skin on the director's hands cracking—a sign of a suppressed rage that can no longer be contained and is fighting to escape the body.
Moving from the support groups of Berlin to the shores of Lake Garda, the film inhabits the thin line between documentary and auto-fiction. At the heart of the narrative lies a secret archive of violent adolescent writings that the director chooses not to hide, but to transform into raw performance material. By involving his brother Mattia in a disturbing mise-en-scène and challenging his mother’s austere discipline through dance, Di Mento turns the film set into the only possible space for a long-denied family dialogue. Amidst vintage television interludes and the stubborn vitality of his centenarian grandmother Attilia, Veleno explores a suspended grief passed down through generations. It is a visual mosaic that does not seek redemption, but rather transforms trauma into a profound act of presence and shared connection.
CREDITS
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Rocco Di Mento
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