I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione

I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione

30 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Jan. 1, 2013

I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.

I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione

30 mins | Drama, Fantasy | Jan. 1, 2013

I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione
I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.
Producers Hereonin
Original title I Yam What I Yam... L'invenzione
Directors Peter Sant
Writers Peter Sant

Cast

Emanuel Cutajar

as Main character

Ana-Maria Grosu

as Olive Oyl

Theodore Zammit

as Popeye

Gaetano Zauri

as Bluto

Daniel Casingena

as Popeye #2

Colin Magro

as Village worker