Limen [Omission] (2012) watch online HD

2005, year of the death of John Paul II. Luca Bianco is a Christian fundamentalist, obsessed by Islam and by an extremely racist view of Christianity. He spends his time in the study of the Bible. The only person he's in contact with is a woman who comes daily to interview him. He talks to her about his past, about his religious and political belief, about his work and his marriage. She records every conversation on tape, day by day. From this very minimal situation, we jump to a different moment of Luca Bianco's life. It's summer, Luca loses his job, his marriage in in crisis. In the worst moment a engineer named Massimiliano Gorgia - a Christian fundamentalist himself - hires him as a car driver. From this moment, through a very complex plot, we are inside an international intrigue based on the clash of the civilizations on a side, on the difference between individual and politic ethics on the other.

To make the car sequences, Emiliano Dante was lying down on the cowling, holding a safety belt with the left and the camera with the right, while the vehicle was 50km/hr in the traffic, without any permission. For this reason Fabrizio Croci called him "Spiderman" for a week.

The movie is spoken in seven languages. Six are translated (Italian, German, Polish, Greek, English, French) and the seventh (Turkish) is not. The Turkish dialogue has been recorded by Emiliano Dante's Turkish friends talking about the accession of Turkey to the European Union and about the contradictory Turkish habits in eating and drinking (according to Muslim prescriptions about eating pig, not about drinking alcohol.)

Mr. Mario A. Di Gregorio - in the movie Raymond Reilly Scotti - is one of the World's greatest scholars on Charles Darwin and teaches in the University of Cape Town (South Africa). That's one of the reasons why Emiliano Dante chose him for the character who gives the last speech about the Bible in a movie with so many racist characters. In Raymond Reilly Scotti's studio - which is the studio Mario A. Di Gregorio has in the University of L'Aquila - you can clearly see a portrait of Bertrand Russell, author of "Why I am not Christian".

Emiliano Dante started working on the screen-play in November 2005, when Fabrizio Croci claimed that he would have acted for free in a cinematographic version of Dante's short theatrical piece "Il Pianificatore". After two months, the screen-play had only 10 or 15 lines in common with the original work, was three times longer, had a different plot and completely different themes.

Everybody in the crew was at the first time in a full length feature movie. The whole crew appears on the screen.

Being mainly shot and edited in L'Aquila, Italy, Limen has been deeply damaged by the earthquake of April 6th 2009, during which the director and the whole crew lost their homes. After having made another movie, Into The Blue, Emiliano Dante came back to work on the movie (mostly shot in 2006), shooting new scenes and reediting whole parts. The very name "Limen" comes after the earthquake. Earlier, the working copies of the movie were called "Omission".

The movie has been dedicated to the dead in the Utoya massacre, made by a Christian fundamentalist. For the same reason the director stopped working on the movie exactly one month after the massacre.

"Limen" is a latin word. It means "bound" and "limit", or even "beginning" and "door".