The Atonement (2025)
The Atonement is a cinematic experience that depicts a lonely man faced with the failure of all consolation. Job is no longer the biblical patient, but a young, unkempt body that traverses bare and claustrophobic places as if they were psychic thresholds. Each environment is a fragment of consciousness that is consumed, a remnant of faith that has survived the collapse of all theodicy. In the film, the protagonist, realizes that no justice will come from above, nor from the community, nor from a shared moral order. If guilt cannot be redeemed, then it must be paid for. The Atonement becomes a self-imposed gesture, not a ritual expiation, but a real act of flesh and blood, of presumed justice inflicted on the world and on God in a desperate attempt to restore balance to the world when all is silent.
Directors:
Carmine Lo Regio, Paola Esposito Mocerino.
Writer:
Carmine Lo Regio
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Daniele Arfè as Giobbe |
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Giulia Orsatti as Sant'Agata |
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Tony Pandolfo as Predicatore |
| Directing | Carmine Lo Regio | Director |
| Directing | Paola Esposito Mocerino | Director |
| Writing | Carmine Lo Regio | Screenplay |
| Camera | Paola Esposito Mocerino | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Chiara Di Serio | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Federica Oliviero | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Liliana Auletta | Makeup Department Head |
| Crew | Annalisa Esposito Mocerino | Scenic Artist |
| Sound | Ivan Erricis | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Alessia Rese | Music |
| Sound | Diego Cignitti | Music |
| Editing | Paola Esposito Mocerino | Editor |
| Sound | Carmine Lo Regio | Music |
| Visual Effects | Francesca Durante | VFX Artist |