‘Il Posto’ to Roll Out on Arte and NDR Following World Premiere at Visions du Réel (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLise Pedersen “Il Posto” (“A Steady Job”), which world premiered Tuesday at Visions du Réel film festival, is set to launch in Europe on Franco-German channel ARTE and German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk in September.
The film is directed by Italian duo Mattia Colombo and Gianluca Matarrese, whose “Fashion Babylon” premiered recently at CPH:DOX. “Il Posto,” which is competing in Visions du Réel’s Grand Angle section, takes the viewer on a road movie between southern and northern Italy alongside Italian nurses in search of a steady job.The bus service is run by Raffaele, an unemployed nurse who decided to set up his own company to help freelance nurses like himself travel to the north at low cost to pass an exam that will secure them a job in the public health system.
As the COVID-19 pandemic hits, Raffaele sees the number of his clients drop and, with his business on the brink of bankruptcy, he decides to go back and take the test himself one last time. “ ‘Il Posto’ is a documentary about the mirage of a steady job and the tragedy of a nation grappling with unemployment,” Matarrese tells Variety. “It’s a journey into the heart of a great moral and economic social crisis that, although it is set in Italy, in part reflects a European condition. “The overnight bus journeys and the inhuman mode of recruitment through giant public examinations perfectly embody the social change we are facing.
The voice of the nurses is the voice of an entire generation, who make up the emptied, impoverished, devalued workforce. In a changing world of smart working, start-uppers and freelancers, what does it mean to fight for a steady job?,” he asks.
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