The Days of Abandonment (film)

2005 film

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The Days of Abandonment


Italian	I giorni dell'abbandono

Directed by	Roberto Faenza
Based on	The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Starring	Margherita Buy Luca Zingaretti
Cinematography	Maurizio Calvesi
Music by	Goran Bregović Carmen Consoli
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Days of Abandonment (Italian: I giorni dell'abbandono) is a film of 2005 by Roberto Faenza, set in Turin, based on the novel The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante.

Synopsis

Olga (Buy), literary translator, wife and mother of two is suddenly abandoned by her husband (Zingaretti) for a younger woman. With this she enters into a painful lapse that turns into despair that brings her to sleep and food deprivation. She encounters a neighbour musician (Goran Bregović) that moves something in her. After a descent into hell and eventual rise from despair, Olga lives an insight that makes her realize that she was not losing her mind for the lost love but discovers the meaning of losing her dignity and being imprisoned in a single role, which she must break in order to enjoy life.

Cast

Awards

The film has received five nominations for several awards:

David di Donatello 2006 (Best music and best original composer)
Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani 2006 (Best Actor in a Main role and Best Actress in a main role)
Venice Film Festival 2005 (Best directing)

External links

v t e Films directed by Roberto Faenza
Escalation (1968) H2S (1969) Forza Italia! ((1977) Si salvi chi vuole (1980) Copkiller (1983) The Bachelor (1990) Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993) Sostiene Pereira (1995) Marianna Ucrìa (1997) The Lost Lover (1999) The Soul Keeper (2002) Alla luce del sole (2005) The Days of Abandonment (2005) I Vicerè (2007) The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009) Silvio Forever (2011) Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011) Anita B. (2014)

Films directed by Roberto Faenza

Escalation (1968)
H2S (1969)
Forza Italia! ((1977)
Si salvi chi vuole (1980)
Copkiller (1983)
The Bachelor (1990)
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale (1993)
Sostiene Pereira (1995)
Marianna Ucrìa (1997)
The Lost Lover (1999)
The Soul Keeper (2002)
Alla luce del sole (2005)
The Days of Abandonment (2005)
I Vicerè (2007)
The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)
Silvio Forever (2011)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
Anita B. (2014)

Elena Ferrante

Novels

Neapolitan Novels	My Brilliant Friend (2011) The Story of a New Name (2012) Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2013) The Story of the Lost Child (2014)
Other	Troubling Love (1992) The Days of Abandonment (2002) The Lost Daughter (2006) The Lying Life of Adults (2019)

Children's fiction

The Beach at Night (2007)

Non-fiction

Frantumaglia (2003)
Incidental Inventions (2019)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing (2021)

Adaptations

Film	Nasty Love (1995) The Days of Abandonment (2005) The Lost Daughter (2021)
Television	My Brilliant Friend (2018–24) The Lying Life of Adults (2023)

Ferrante Fever (2017)

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