Small atlas of emotions between past and present. L’ombra del giorno directed by Giuseppe Piccioni

Abstract

L’ombra del giorno directed by Giuseppe Piccioni (2022) is a film that composes an atlas of emotions linked to a crucial moment in our past, the years 1938-1940, and an unpredictable love story. This paper sets out to highlight and analyse the main emotions contained in the film, also giving value to the spaces and architecture of the city where the events take place, a ‘city of the gaze’, Ascoli Piceno, which plays a leading role in the birth of emotions, their movements and manifestations. The release of the movie in cinemas, a few hours after the start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine (24 February 2022), led to a particularly intense emotional fruition of L’ombra del giorno, which could not be ignored when reading the film.