Diary of a Sane Man
movie

Released February 09, 1990
Overview
Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.
Cast

Micha Bergese
as
The Sane Man
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Julia Langley
as
Antonin Artaud
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Sara Donadoni
as
grandchild
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Charles Shuts
as
grandfather
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Gad Hollander
as
film-maker
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Monty Ray Garrison
as
poet
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Raffaella Monti
as
Venus/Aphrodite
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Antonio Celiento
as
Adonis
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Carla Fioravanti
as
Fortune Teller
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David L Hirst
as
farmer's voice
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Ian Hinchliffe
as
studio chef

Lol Coxhill
as
fat producer