Rosatigre

Antonello, born in Naples, is a transvestite who lives in Turin and walks the street as his alter-ego Rosatigre. Sasa, his best friend, looks him up to take him back to Naples. There he spends the days between Christmas and Twelfth Night with friends, an episode that is intercut with fragments from his colourful life in Turin. A girlfriend of Antonello from Turin has meanwhile also arrived in Naples to spend her holiday there with him. Antonello embarks on a brief and doomed relationship with his great love Sasa, but decides in the end to go back to Turin, never to return to his place of birth again.The film is both coarse and tender in tone, both dramatic and realistic. De Bernardi: ‘Rosatigre is a film of opposites (…). It shows the opposing male and female sides existing in all of us.’ There is also a contrast in a narrative respect, as De Bernardi allows the actions to take place in two geographical poles: Northern and Southern Italy. De Bernardi, again: ‘Rosatigre could be described provocatively as a Bildungsroman, the novel of a contemporary boy’s formation: the protagonist could thus become the emblem of many young people today when they confront the life and world around them.’