An Endless Sunday
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Brenda is pregnant. Alex has just turned nineteen and is about to become a father. Kevin’s name reverberates through the city. Each one of them tries to leave their mark on the world. They are part of a continuous string of events, paradoxes, and personalities that weave together in a narrative akin to an unconventional bildungsroman. Always connected to each other, they flit between the coastal countryside and the timeless city, each battling the relentless march of time and the sweltering heat in their own way. The individual experiences that Alex, Brenda, and Kevin go through are not a random sequence of adventures but rather steps in a journey of self-discovery, growth, and maturation. Romantic adventures and the pursuit of independence are central to the predicaments that Kevin and Brenda find themselves in, reacting instinctively yet step by step catalyzing Alex’s cry, “I EXIST.”
“My generation is defined by language,” Parroni states, «telling one’s own reality in 2023 is a tender and assertive act that involves grappling with the deep ambiguities, stereotypes, and contradictions of the media-saturated society we have been raised in.”
DIRECTORY
Born in Rome in 1992, he completed his high school education with a diploma in Graphic and Photographic Arts. He continued to explore the intersection between graphic design and motion picture, making his debut by co-directing episode of the animated series Aeterna. His experimental project on the spaces of his upbringing, created using virtual reality, garnered him an award at the 2016 RUFA contest. That same year, he showcased his short film Iov at the “Alice nelle Città” section of the Rome Film Festival. Graduating in 2017 with a degree in Cinema, his short Adavede was featured at the 74th Venice International Film Festival during the International Critics’ Week and was also selected for competition at the 59th Zinebi International Bilbao Festival. He works as a photographer and documentarist in films such as Miss Marx, Nico, 1988, and Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli; Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone; Favolacce and America Latina by the D’Innocenzo Brothers. In 2023, he won the Solinas Experimenta Series Award and simultaneously presented his first film, An Endless Sunday in competition in the “Orizzonti” section during the 80th International Film Festival of Venice, receiving the Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Award.
