Castello Cavalcanti
Short description
In 1955 Italy, racing driver Jed Cavalcanti runs into trouble during the Molte Miglia rally and ends up stranded in a small town. The breakdown keeps him there longer than he planned, and the people he meets bring him some surprising news about his family. What begins as a detour turns into something more personal than the race itself.
Wes Anderson directed and wrote this short comedy-drama, which runs eight minutes and was made with Prada and production companies including American Empirical Pictures, The Directors Bureau and Hi! Production. It came out in 2013, between Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel, as the tenth of the twenty-six films he has directed in chronological order. Jason Schwartzman plays Jed Cavalcanti, and the cast, credited with thirty-four names, also includes Giada Colagrande, Giorgio Zancolla, Paolo Coluccio, Silvano Broglia and Francesco Bonaccorso. Roman Coppola, Jeremy Dawson and Julie Sawyer produced.
On TMDB the film holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from 326 votes, a solid score for a short. It is a small-scale piece set in the Italian countryside, built around one driver's unexpected stay and the family discoveries that come with it.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the 5-minute mark of the film, as the protagonist walks towards the phone, a male voice can be heard in the background. This is a recording lasting several seconds from an original Italian radio broadcast of the 1979 Formula 1 race, when a battle for second place unfolded between Gilles Villeneuve (1950-1982) and René Arnoux, with commentary by Mario Poltronieri (1929-2017).
- The race title shown at the beginning of the film, “Molte Miglia,” is a reference to “Mille Miglia,” a endurance race on public roads held in Italy from 1927 to 1957 – from Brescia to Rome and back.
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