Amongst water and fire, film-director and actors, shopping centres and Telecittà studios of San Giorgio Canavese, Elisabetta Sgarbi's eye hustles about.
It is creeping, sliding, and it is shooting shots and talks and elements, and thus building up the backstage of the latest film by Luciano Emmer, Water…fire - three episodes featuring Sabrina Ferilli, Giancarlo Giannini, Valerie Kaprinski, Simone Gwaenelle, each of them bound by the natural elements of the title.
Focussing mostly the dialogues between film-director and Miss Ferilli - that space of fantasy in which actor's freedom, body expressiveness, director's ideas, film producer's demands (Roberto Bessi) confront each other. And in the water, the compelling force of the film in which we are sinking…