COMUNQUE BENE
by Beatrice Baldacci​

17min | Italy | 2024

How is Lisa's life going?
It's hard to say! Twenty-nine years old and the first grey hairs have already sprouted. She still has no certainty
in life: part-time jobs, waste-time love affairs and an absent, dysfunctional family. On an ordinary day, an unknown number contacts her on her mobile phone. After fourteen years, someone important to her comes back into her life, asking her for a decisive meeting.
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​Year of production 2024
Length 17'
Country Italy
Shooting Format Digital
Aspect Ratio 1,55:1
Dialogue Italian
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Director Beatrice Baldacci
​Production Lumen Films
Producer Andrea Gori
Writers Beatrice Baldacci, Andrea Paolo Massara
Cinematographer Giorgio Giannoccaro
Editor Isabella Guglielmi
Music Valentino Orciuolo
Sound Francesco Murano
Sound Mix Simone Altana, Gianluca Gasparini, Giulio Sereno​
Production Designer Sara Caiffe
Costume Designer Livia Maria Giacone
Cast Anna Manuelli, Claudio Corinaldesi, Lorenzo Aloi

Con il sostegno del MiC e di SIAE, nell’ambito del programma “Per Chi Crea”.

Festival selections
Alice nella Città 2024, Italy - World Premiere
​Sulmona International Film Festival 2024, Italy - Best Actress Award for Anna Manuelli
​Linea d'Ombra Film Festival 2024, Italy
​Visioni Italiane 2024, Italy - Special Mention for Anna Manuelli
​INCinema - Festival del cinema inclusivo 2024, Italy
Est Film Festival 2025, Italy
Short Days 2025, Italy
​Cortinametraggio 2025, Italy - Best Actress Award (Anna Manuelli)
​FILMAY Short Film Festival Kumanovo 2025, North Macedonia 
​​Free Aquila Festival 2025, Italy
​​Adriatic Film Festival 2025, Italy
​​Figari International Short Film Fest 2025, Italy
​Cisterna Film Festival 2025, Italy
Inventa un Film - Lenolafilmfestival 2025, Italy
​Edera Film Festival 2025, Italy
Alta Marea Festival 2025, Italy ​- Best Actress Award (Anna Manuelli)
Molise Cinema Film Festival​ 2025, Italy
​​​BINISAYA World 2025, Philippines
Videocorto Nettuno 2025, Italy - Best Actress Award (Anna Manuelli)
​Nòt Film Fest 2025, Italy
​i-Fest International Film Festival 2025, Italy
​Moonstep International Short Film Festival 2025, Italy
Incanto Film Festival 2025, Italy ​- Best Actress Award (Anna Manuelli)
Contemporanea International Film Festival 2025, Italy
​Bosphorus Film Festival 2025, Turkey
​​Festival del Cinema Europeo 2025, Italy
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Director's Statement
“Comunque Bene” (as like “however fine”) is the answer we are often used to giving when someone asks us how things are going. We are aware that things are not going well, but all things considered, they are fine. The ‘however fine’ is a fragile condition, it can be suddenly upset by just the ringing of a phone or the voice of someone we haven't heard from in a long time. This story is about a meeting, that between a father and a daughter, Claudio and Lisa, who after a long time are confronted with old emotions. I drew some inspiration from my own private life. I had an alternating bond with my father, made up of distances and fleeting encounters, often in places inappropriate for such an intimate moment, such as stations or airports. This is why I chose to set the meeting between Lisa and Claudio in an American Diner, a cheerful and surreal place. In this context, Lisa realises that everything around her seems more interesting and less painful than her father's words. She realises that he does not really want to have her in his life, and her decision to leave becomes a way of accepting that perhaps it is fine.

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