A small revolution, due to Covid, which starts with Ginevra Elkann's 'Magari', the first of Rai Cinema's films which, skipping the room, will be exclusively on RaiPlay from tomorrow. Followed by four new titles originally intended for theaters and another four that will go directly to the platform after going to theaters. It starts with 'Magari', already in Locarno and Turin, in which the director tells her childhood or at least is strongly inspired by it.
Grandson of Gianni Agnelli, daughter of Margherita Agnelli and Alain Elkann, sister of John and Lapo, Geneva not by chance puts on a story of three brothers, Alma, Jean and Sebastiano who from Paris, city where they live in a wealthy upper middle class environment with the Russian Orthodox mother of faith, Charlotte (Celine Sallette), they find themselves for a short time in an opposite environment. Or in the arms of Carlo (Riccardo Scamarcio), Italian father, quite immature, completely broke and totally imperfect and in any case more interested in the screenwriter Benedetta (Alba Rohrwacher) than in them.
"With Clara Barzini with whom I wrote the film - explains Ginevra Elkann - I wanted to go back to the eighties, enter into my memories, but I can't say that 'Maybe' is a film about my family, rather about a family idea, like Scamarcio also rightly told me while we were shooting ". "Of course - adds the producer Elkann, at his debut behind the camera - there is an autobiographical cue that however has taken its own way. I just wanted to talk about emotions and small things of childhood through the eyes of a little girl who has his own idea of happiness and family ". What did your father and brothers say about the film? "My dad, who inspired me like many other fathers I know, in seeing the film he recognized himself in some things and in others not, but more than anything else, like my brothers, he was happy that he managed to make a film that has always been my dream. "
Instead, the 'imperfect' father Scamarcio says: "I play a particular parent who finds himself having to spend the Christmas holidays with his three children who reach him equipped for the mountains, but who then find themselves being taken to the sea, in Sabaudia" . And again the actor: "Anyway, when I made the film, I remembered childhood memories. When my parents quarreled and threatened to separate, I used to pray in bed at night for fear that it would really happen." "Ginevra Elkann - Alba Rohrwacher underlines - has immersed us in a welcoming, true and easy world in which to move. It was her world, but it immediately became ours. She created herself as a new family, thanks also to the magical power of Geneva".
A 'Magari' will follow from May 28 'Bar Giuseppe' by Giulio Base; 'The revenge' of Leo Muscato from 4 June and 'Have faith' by Giorgio Pasotti. The four titles that will go direct to play are: 'Far away' by Gianni Di Gregorio, 'Otzi the mystery of time' by Gabriele Pignotta, 'Dafne' by Federico Bondi and 'A day suddenly' by Ciro Emilio. "We wanted to do something at the time of Covid - explains Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema, connected remotely from Viale Mazzini -. Although for us the centrality of the room remains sacred, these were films that had to come out and were unable to In short, it is a particular case - he reiterates -. It is clear that cinema is made for the cinema, even if RaiPlay could be the first window after programming in the cinema ".
