Gasoline

Directed by Monica Stambrini

Maya Sansa & Regina Orioli

Sinossi

Cast & Credits

Benzina is the tenderly dramatic story of two young girls not much over twenty. The story evolves around Stella and Eleonora (nicknamed Lenni), a petrol pump, a snobby, super-bourgeois mother hovering threateningly over Lenni’s life, the two girls’ love affair and their desire to escape. Then, night time and an accident, or maybe a crime… the desperate escape, like an odyssey, with the cumbersome corpse of the mother to get rid of without being seen.

Two opposing lives to escape from: Lenni, blonde hair, a conventional bourgeois life; Stella, green hair, a chaotic life and no family. 

The petrol station? The happy oasis where they can always be found, without searching for them. The real escape is their love, simple, nearly childish, like the rainbow that appears and shivers in the petrol-covered mud puddles at the service station.

Code 2370

SCREENPLAY
Monica Stambrini
Anne Ritta Ciccone
Elena Stancanelli
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fabio Cianchetti 
EDITING
Paola Freddi
ART DIRECTOR
Alessandro Rosa
COSTUMES
Antonella Cannarozzi
PRODUCER
Galliano Juso