Villa di Montefreddo · Perugia
Matilde & Federico · Villa di Montefreddo wedding film
Matilde & Federico’s film
The wedding trailer of Matilde & Federico, with their reception at Villa di Montefreddo, Perugia, Umbria.
Their day
Some weddings tell their own story, and then there is Matilde and Federico’s. Villa di Montefreddo welcomed them on one of those days that seem written on purpose: long light on the cypress trees, just enough breeze to stir the tablecloths, olive groves running down to the valley as if showing the guests to their seats. Drinks drifted on beneath the garden trees, children chased each other across the lawn, glasses were raised. Federico couldn’t stop looking for her. Matilde let herself be found.
Until then, everything was exactly as you would imagine it. Matilde’s long hair, pinned up and then let down over her shoulders, had been her signature for years: the hair in her childhood photos, the hair she brushed before school, the hair everyone had seen flowing down her veil. Then came the cake cutting. The guests gathered around the table, phones went up, Federico waited for Matilde. And Matilde arrived, with a new style and her hair far shorter than just a few minutes before – with a little help from her hairdresser aunt, while everyone was busy celebrating.
A second of total silence, the real kind, when even the music seems to hold its breath; then the roar, the applause, hands over mouths, someone laughing and crying at the same time. But the scene that stays, the one nobody there will ever forget, is her father, standing two steps away from her, speechless. Not a gesture, not a word: just the shining eyes of a man who understood, in that instant, that his daughter had become a woman. The rest of the evening was a party that didn’t want to end – toasts, music until late, and that rare feeling of having witnessed something true.
On set
Black and white, then colour
In the opening seconds come the title, Matilde e Federico, and the cypress avenue seen by drone, a yellow convertible driving through it. Part of getting ready is in black and white: hair being pinned up by the window, an oval mirror, bottles on ice. A pair of scissors and a burst of laughter pass by in black and white too; later, in colour, Matilde walks between the brick pillars of the gate with short hair and one arm in the air.
Then the ceremony, in an arched stone church, with a reading at the lectern and the celebrant in vestments embroidered with flowers; on the way out, a kiss on the threshold among soap bubbles, and portraits before the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, under a clear sky.
Film details
| Venue | Villa di Montefreddo |
|---|---|
| Town | Perugia, Umbria |
| Format | trailer (2:42) |
The celebration
An afternoon at Villa di Montefreddo
At the villa, the drone follows the hills of cypress and olive and the open countryside reaching to the horizon. Federico, in a bottle-green suit, greets guests beside the yellow car; two DJs in jackets, ties and brightly coloured shorts play beneath the trees; at the buffet, ham is carved by hand. When the couple appear at the top of the stairs in the white-arched hall, the guests wave red napkins in the air. The cake is cut between the wrought-iron gates, beside bright flowers, as Matilde lifts the glasses to the sky.
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