In collaboration with Prix Palatine
Directed by: Francesca Comencini
Starring: Fabrizio Gifuni, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Anna Mangiocavallo
Year: 2024
Country: Italy
Running Time: 110′
Produced by: Kavac Film, Les films du Worso, IBC Movie, One Art, Rai Cinema
Distributed by: 01 Distribution
Plot: This film is a deeply personal account of moments the director shared with her father. It’s an intimate story that nonetheless finds the right distance in the fact that between father and daughter there is always cinema — as a passion, a life choice, a way of being in the world. Cinema acts as a web underlying the story of their exchanges, creating the space for imagination. “With cinema,” says the father, “you can escape. With imagination.” The images stem from memories and, like memories, they amplify certain significant details while erasing others. They are stark images, in which there is almost nothing except the two of them — and every element that appears carries an exaggerated quality: if something is big, it is very big; if it is far, it is very far; if there is a ray of light, it is very bright; if something is near, it is very close. As for the film sets, on the other hand, there is a sense of fullness, confusion, haste — lots of people, lots of noise — and again, everything is heightened in this excitement of collective life that defines film sets: here, those of Pinocchio, always built in the middle of nowhere, in barren stretches of countryside.