A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These na
A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s metafictional essay, a female narrator who wishes to tell the story of a love between two men encounters a polyamorous chorus of lovers, and this oft-told tale is multiplied. In Club Scheherazade, there is no protagonist, and every song has various versions. Heteronormative dramaturgy is challenged polyphonically and across a range of media: lovers ask each other about threesomes, Grindr contacts and past dates. Pop clichés are twisted, heartache permeates the men’s singing, and poems by Wadih Saadeh are read out while a lover’s dirty laundry is aired. The narrator mischievously tries for a happy ending as her characters exit the story. “If pain could be forgotten through words,” we hear at one point, “no lover would ever have to walk away wounded.”
主演:西尔维奥·奥兰多,瓦莱里奥·马斯坦德雷亚,埃琳娜·莱蒂,托马索·拉尼奥,克劳迪亚·潘多尔菲,维尼乔·马尔基奥尼,莫妮卡·贝鲁奇,迭戈·里邦,马西米利亚诺·托尔托拉,埃马努艾拉·法内利,加布里埃尔·蒙特西,萨拉·萨里约科,特泽塔·阿夫拉姆,Solomon Andra,Malich Cissé,保拉·蒂齐亚娜·克鲁恰尼,Federico D'Ovidio,吉安尼·迪·格雷格里奥,Emanuele Maria Di Stefano,Emma Fasano