La pietra del paragone (2007)

ALL 10/02/2007 (it) Comedy, Music 161 Min
  • Release
    10/02/2007
  • Production
    Naive Film, Les Films du Point du Jour, Unitel Classics
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    La pietra del paragone
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.

  1. Philippe Béziat

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Sonia Prina

    La marquesa Clarice

  2. Jennifer Holloway

    La baronessa Aspasia

  3. Laura Giordano

    Donna Fulvia

  4. François Lis

    Il conte Asdrubale

  5. José Manuel Zapata

    Il cavalier Giocondo

  6. Joan Martín-Royo

    Macrobio

  7. Christian Senn

    Pacuvio

  8. Filippo Polinelli

    Fabrizio

  9. Jean-Christophe Spinosi

    Self - Conductor

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 9 , Crews : 4

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La pietra del paragone (2007) 161 Min

ALL 10/02/2007 (it)
Comedy, Music
  • Release 10/02/2007
  • Production
    Naive Film, Les Films du Point du Jour, Unitel Classics
  • Original title La pietra del paragone
  • it
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.

  1. Philippe Béziat

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer