Friday 21 November at21:00

This film is a very personal account of moments lived by the director with her father. A personal account, yet told with the proper distance, in that cinema is ever-present between father and daughter: as a passion, a life choice, and a way of being in the world. Cinema as a web that underlies the story of their exchanges and creates a space for imagination. “With cinema,” the father says, “you can escape. With your own mind”. Images are sparked by memories and like memories amplify a few notable markers while erasing others. Spare images, where there is hardly anything other than the two of them, and the marker that is present always has something monstrous about it: large things are exceptionally large; distant things are incredibly far; sunbeams are ablaze; nearby things are much too close. As for the movie sets, however, everything is in excess: confusion, urgency, people, noise—and everything here is also amplified. In these sets is the thrill of communal life. The ones featured in the film are those of Pinocchio, built in the middle of nowhere in the barren countryside.

Francesca Comencini was born in Rome in 1961. She studied philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome, but interrupted her studies to move to Paris where she lived for 18 years and where her three children were born. She made her debut in 1984 with the film Pianoforte and since then she made films, documentaries and series with a strong focus on reality, its conflicts, harshness and humanity. She particularly loves to portray female characters, trying to impose their centrality and strength.

Greek Premiere