Genre: Drama

Language: Italian with English Subtitles

Director: Riccardo Milani

Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Alba Caterina Rohrwacher, Paola Cortellesi, Sandra Ceccarelli

Released: 2008

Duration: 99 Minutes

Rating: M contains offensive language and content that may disturb

Distribution: Adriana Chiesa srl

‘Piano Solo’ is the passionate and haunting true story based on the life of jazz pianist Luca Flores, from award-winning director Riccardo Milani.

A tragic event immediately takes its toll on young Luca (Kim Rossi Stuart, ‘Along the Ridge’ & ‘The Keys to the House’) when he sees his mother perish in a car accident on a road in Africa. The boy’s obsessive feeling of guilt for the terrible loss, as inexplicable as it is unfounded, plants the seed of a torment that will pursue the fragile musician for the rest of his life.

Reconsructing the life of one of the brightest musical talents to emerge in Italy in the past few decades, ‘Piano Solo’ follows Luca from his boyhood in Africa to his years playing with such greats such as Chet Baker & Dave Holland. But sadly, as the young pianist develops his prodigious, spellbinding talent at music school in Florence and discovers jazz, his loved ones watch helplessly as he retreats further and further into his personal darkness.

Rossi Stuart is masterful as Luca, capturing not just his artistry, loves, anxieties and madness, but also, the essential enigma that defined this great artist and that continues to fuel his popularity as a cult figure in Italy more than ten years after his death.

From the novel by Walter Veltroni "Il disco del mondo – Vita breve di Luca Flores, musicista".

“ … Rossi Stuart absolutely extraordinary as the dark, haunting jazz musician Luca Flores …”  Il Tempo