“The fifth season” arrives at the Venice Film Festival, the film that the cuisine through the stories of five chef women

The Venice Film Festivaldespite its highly anticipated red carpet on the water and the coming and going of stars from all over the world, it is never just a glamorous moment. It is an opportunity, through his films and its protagonists, to speak of current affairs, culture, of themes and even thorny, controversial, different topics.

As the female vision in a purely male workplace, that of the kitchen. A vision that is told At the 82nd Venice International Film Festival From the docufilm “The fifth season”, which narrates the world of the end of the women from the point of view of women.

Five voices of Italian cuisine, each with its very personal season inside. Because, as the film explains, “each of us has within itself a time that is not calculated with the watches, which is not measured with the days, the years, but which is a time of ours. A bit like having a season all for us, without calendar, without limit ». The fifth season, in fact.

Born from an idea of Paola Valeria Jovinelli made for the direction of Giuseppe Carrierithe docufilm presented at the Venice Film Festival is A journey from north to southern Italy in the world of high gastronomy. With a new perspective, which is that of the five protagonists who, introduced by the narrative voice of Isabella Ragonesethey tell their stories of courageous choices, of travel between distant latitudes and intimate memories, of ingredients that become languages, of creativity that challenges time.

The protagonists chefs

Five are precisely the chefs who keep that personal time they try to tell: that fifth season that contains the time hidden before the plate, before the technique, before the service.

Caterina Ceraudoa Michelin star at the Dattilo restaurant in Strongoli, works in the family agricultural estate, in a constant relationship with the Calabrian landscape. Martina Carusoa Michelin star at the Signum of Salina, built its identity on the island where she was born, transforming a remote place into a point of reference. Valeria Piccinitwo Michelin stars from Cain to Montemerano, embodies the most authentic Tuscany, that made of peasant roots, clear flavors and gestures handed down with modesty. Antonia Klugmanna Michelin star in L’Argine a Vencò, has chosen to work on the border, in a space where nature and reflection influence each other. Cristina Bowermana Michelin star in Glass Hostaria in Rome, built its path in the heart of Trastevere, with an open and multicultural look.

“This document film is a story that crosses places and sensations, evoking the cuisine as a lyrical dimension of the gesture and the possibility”, explains the director and screenwriter of the film Giuseppe Carrieri. «The stories of the chefs involved exceed the simple sense of taste to lead us along the itinerary of the lived and shared time. Because the fifth season is, first of all, a feeling of doing and feeling, which combines creativity and freedom ».