Seasons

The short film, through the succession of four episodes representative of Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer, aims to address the theme of the restless relationship between the perception of time and the flow of existence in order to discover that, by trying to shuffle the cards, infinite spaces and possibilities open up. For this reason, the seasons of life are told through an unconventional perspective: Autumn is represented by two boys in their twenties, Aldo and Marco. They have been friends since middle school, they have never stopped hanging out, but they live two opposite characters. Marco has been working in the family bar with his father for almost two years now, but things aren't going as they should. Aldo, however, once he finished his studies at scientific high school, enrolled in the faculty of biological sciences. While their skin is changing, life is on the starting track. Winter is coming. Sofia and Leonardo are a middle-aged couple in crisis. They have been together for a long time, perhaps too long; they have a child and little else to share now. Their relationship seems on the verge of surrendering to time. However, like the first flowers of Spring, the life of two elderly gentlemen, Franco and Gaspare, is also blossoming again. A friendship born almost by chance, once they were both widowed, keeps them company every Sunday, in the same park, on the same bench. We both like to laugh a lot. They are convinced that they can still live the most beautiful part of their existence. The lightheartedness of Summer, however, belongs only to two children who, in the most dreamlike episode of the four, run on the lawn of the Parco Degli Acquedotti, at sunset, at the height of the Casalino, that is, of Time, the true protagonist of the screenplay, the constant background of the four stories. Finally, at the end of each episode, a voice-over recites a part of Montale's poem "The house of the customs officers", providing the viewer, together with the fragments scattered throughout the short film, an intentionally clearly visible common thread.