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A scene from Cinque secondi: young women and men work the soil among old vines and olive trees with hoes and spades; behind them a meadow and a villa with a clock on its roof, among pines

Cinque secondi

a film by Paolo Virzì

Un giorno mi piacerebbe interpretare io stessa la mia storia.

One day I would like to play my own story myself.

Augusta

The film

Directed by
Paolo Virzì
Starring
Valerio Mastandrea, Galatéa Bellugi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Ilaria Spada, Anna Ferraioli Ravel
In cinemas
from 30 October 2025 (Italy)
Matilde
Galatéa Bellugi, inspired by Augusta Bargilli
Valentina
Aloisa Bargilli
A scene from Cinque secondi: a group of young women and men stand in a line beside a vine, facing a police officer in riot gear
A scene from the film

Collemezzano, Sasseto in the film

The true story

Matilde, the young woman who brings an abandoned vineyard back to life, is inspired by me. The film’s Sasseto is Collemezzano, my family’s land, where I went back to make wine.

I have known Paolo for years. My videos, my photos and the way I dress guided the character’s costumes and gestures. Many stages of my life are in the film.

I profumi della cantina sono rimasti identici, una petite madeleine di Proust. Basta sentirli, e tutto ritorna.

The scents of the cellar have stayed the same, a madeleine of Proust. One breath of them, and everything comes back.

Augusta Bargilli holds a hand red with must in front of her face
Hands in the must, in a photograph of mine

In the vineyard

The old vines

Paolo put the old vines at the heart of the film, because vines like these are what I make my wine from. I helped the screenwriters with everything about the vineyard and the wine.

The fires lit between the rows against the spring frosts come from my own practice, too. And the scene in which my daughter Aloisa offers Valeria Bruni Tedeschi the red lees of the wine to smear over her face began with a photograph of mine.

Ho cercato di trasmettere tutto il mio amore per le vigne vecchie.

I tried to pass on all my love for old vines.

Aloisa Bargilli on the set of Cinque secondi, in a burgundy knitted sweater, a tool in her hand, in the sun
Aloisa on set

On set

Aloisa

My daughter Aloisa plays Valentina, one of Matilde’s friends. On set she taught the actors how to work the vines.

Seeing her in a film that also tells our story moved me deeply.

The bottles of the film

For Cinque secondi I painted some bottles by hand, each with the film’s title and Paolo Virzì’s name.

  • Black bottle painted with a figure in a green skirt and the words “Cinque secondi di Paolo Virzì”
  • Black bottle painted with two faces among leaves, water lilies and the words “Cinque secondi di Paolo Virzì”
  • Black bottle painted in white strokes: a figure with open arms, faces and the words “Cinque secondi di Paolo Virzì”
  • Black bottle painted with a city street at night, full of coloured lights
Augusta Bargilli on stage at Identità Golose in Milan, her face on the big screen above the audience
Identità Golose, Milan 2026
Augusta Bargilli smiling at Identità Golose, in her hat and a blue blazer, in front of a wall of wood and moss

On stage, 2026

Telling the film

In June 2026 I told the story of the film on the main stage of Identità Golose in Milan, with a video contribution from Paolo Virzì.

At the Trentodoc Festival 2026, in the talk “Vino da Oscar”, I spoke about old vineyards as living sculptures.

Written about the film

  1. Provincia autonoma di TrentoVino da Oscar: la magia della vigna nel grande cinema
  2. Vitae (AIS)Augusta Bargilli, come il ritorno alla vigna diventa il perno di un film e di una nuova vita da produttriceSerena Leo
  3. GiuColVino“Cinque secondi” di Paolo VirzìGiovanna Moldenhauer
  4. Wine MeridianCinque Secondi di Virzì: la vera storia dietro il filmStefano Montibeller
  5. il Nord EstMatilde, la ragazzina che non molla mai: «Ho ispirato io il personaggio di Virzì»Gian Paolo Polesini
  6. Il TirrenoCecina, la vigna e la rinascita: la storia di Augusta che ha ispirato Virzì in “Cinque secondi”Andrea Rocchi
  7. WineNews“La natura ci assomiglia: un vigneto selvatico, se curato, produce un vino che mette euforia”
The painted bottles