Love me Tender

by Klaudia Reynicke

Seconda, 32 years old, is ready for anything to gain her freedom. Suffering from agoraphobia, she is incapable of leaving her home, but when she finally succeeds she must face new challenges that push her limits even further. This assertive and tough anti-super heroine will do it in her own way.

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DATA SHEET

Orginal title:

Love me Tender

Year:

2019

Length (min.):

83'

Original language:

Italiano / Italian

Subtitles:

Inglese / English

Production:

AMKA Films Productions

Co-Producers:

RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

Worlds sales:

Summerside International

Distributors:

First Hand Films

With the support of:

Teleprodukions-Fonds
Repubblica del canton Ticino
FilmPlus della Svizzera italiana
Migros Percento culturale
Succès Passage Antenne
Ernst Göhner Foundation
Stagepool Focal
Ticino Film Commission

Festivals
(selection):

Festival del Cinema Svizzero, Venice, 2020 (online)
Il Cinema Svizzero contemporaneo, 2020 (online)
55° Solothurner Filmtage – Panorama, 2020
Pöff23 Tallin Black Nights Film Festival, 2019
10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, 2019
AFI Festival, 2019
16° Festival de Cine Sevilla, 2019
BFI London Film Festival, 2019
Toronto International Film Festival, 2019 – Discovery
72° Locarno Film Festival, 2019 – Cinéastes du Présent

Official website:

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CONTACT

AMKA Films Productions
https://www.amka.ch/

SYNOPSIS

The daily life of a 32-year-old woman suffering from agoraphobia, SECONDA, suddenly changes when her mother dies and her father abandons her. Alone and unable to leave her home, she clings to the phone messages of a snarling bailiff who one day stops calling. Unable to end her life, she offers a deal to SANTO, a bottle collector: she will give him her house in exchange for her own murder. Santo runs away, leaving Seconda alone in her despair.
The only link she has left with the outside world is the repetitive and disconcerting visits of a little girl who attacks her from the outside, pushing her to the brink.
In order to feel protected, Seconda wears her blue suit and goes out, walking in the streets of her city in search of her freedom, until she confronts her own demons that she will have to face.
A tough and determined anti-super heroine, she will achieve this with her own resources.

LOCATION

Lugano and surroundings

Mendrisio, Chiasso and surroundings

COLLECTIONS

Locarno Film Festival