Light of My Eyes
- Luigi Lo Cascio: Antonio
- Sandra Ceccarelli: Maria
- Silvio Orlando Saverio
- Barbara Valente: Lisa
- Tony Bertorelli: Mario
- Mario Paolo Pierobon: Carlo
Light of my eyes is a film by Giuseppe Piccioni from the year 2001.
Action
Antonio is a chauffeur in Rome. He reads science fiction novels - the lyrics you can hear in the off - which always revolve around a hero who has landed in an unfamiliar new world. It has social contacts only with his boss and colleagues.
One evening he meets Maria know when he almost anfährt her daughter Lisa. He falls in love with Maria, with whom he spends a night. Maria can not or does not want to engage in it. She has concerns with their poorly running store for frozen foods, and therefore major problems their debts to Saverio, a gangster abzustottern. Because of these difficulties it has too little time for her daughter and therefore gets in trouble with the youth welfare office.
Saverio is a small Pate, who makes his business with illegal money lending, extortion and subletting apartments to illegal immigrants. Antonio, who wants to help Maria secretly is, for the remission of their debts Saverios chauffeur and debt collector, until he could no longer bear his crooked shops and gets out.
Mary's daughter Lisa is taking a breakaway and is therefore at the direction of the youth office to their grandparents. Mary recognized gradually that she has fallen in love with Antonio ...
The wintry Rome is a beautiful setting off for this melancholy love story.
Awards
- International Film Festival of Venice 2001: Best Actress - Sandra Ceccarelli and Best Actor - Luigi Lo Cascio
- Sergio Trasatti Award 2001: Giuseppe Piccioni
Reviews
" Light of my eyes is a melancholy urban epic and a love story at the same time that investigates full understanding and with a good sense of the breaks in the lives of ordinary people, whether an approximation is possible, once you have chosen the path of solitude. "
" Guiseppe (sic) Piccioni's film" light of my eyes " itself off the ease of access. He is perhaps erst loved .. on second look. But then so intimately, as in the case of the brittle pair obtained only at second glance, and after a long journey for the couple. "
" Piccioni's melancholy trip through the cities is a wonderful adult love story, with no simple answers and simple happy ending, but with surprising moments of happiness that act more sustainable. "