I Truly Respect You

Colour, 35 mm
Italy, 2004, 98 min
Section: Worried About Work
Oficiální stránky: www.afafilm.it

Synopsis

This elegant parody of business ethics depicts cut-throat practices at the Italian branch of a large multinational whose blandly sinister motto is “Everybody is important and no one is necessary.” Marco Pressi, a slick 20-something human resources and training manager, enthusiastically buys into the corporate double-speak while failing to see that it also applies to him. Soon he finds himself with a mission that proves difficult to finesse: he must get rid of one third of his staff so that the company will be “a little bit lighter at the beginning of the year.” Wielding the weapons of economic incentive and psychological pressure, Marco starts to dump the human surplus through any means possible. As he works into the wee hours in his high-tech office, symbiotically attached to his electronic communication devices, he becomes obsessed with the challenge. Meanwhile, his reputation and personal life suffer.... Named Best Film by the Federazione Italiana dei Cineclub.

About the director

Eugenio Cappuccio (b. 1961, Pantani dell’Inferno, Italy) abandoned law studies to attend Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He entered the film world as a designer of advertising posters, a position which led to work as assistant director to Federico Fellini on Ginger and Fred (1986). After further collaboration with Fellini, he directed the documentary Verso la luna con Fellini, shot on the set of the maestro’s Voce della Luna in 1990. Cappuccio was one of the founders of the publishing house DeriveApprodi, as well as the production company Boccia-Film. For Boccia-Film he co-directed with Massimo Gaudioso and Fabio Nunziata the short film Il Caricatore (1994), which they expanded into the prize-winning feature Il Caricatore (1996). The three men also co-directed La vita e una sola  (1998-9). Cappuccio’s filmography also includes the short Chiattilli and the digital feature Come mosche (2003).