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Glassboy, the daily 'superhero' children

2021-01-20T09:38:13.429Z


To make children talk and talk to them, in the manner of Spielberg and Zemeckis, "who are not afraid to tell stories for the public". (HANDLE)


To make children talk and talk to them, in the manner of Spielberg and Zemeckis, "who are not afraid to tell stories for the public".

This is the goal shared by director Samuele Rossi and producer Emanuele Nespeca in making Glassboy, inspired by the Andersen 2012 award-winning novel, The Glass Child by Fabrizio Silei (Einaudi Ragazzi).

A family movie for the younger audience ("a genre that is often ignored in Italy" underlines Rossi) with a cast that includes Andrea Arru, Giorgia Wurth, Loretta Goggi, Massimo De Lorenzo, Giorgio Colangeli, David Paryla, Rosa Barbolini, Mia Polemari and Stefano Trapuzzano.

After being the only Italian title in competition at the Giffoni Film Festival Winter Edition and winning an award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Glassboy, distributed by Solaria Film in collaboration with Minerva Pictures, arrives on demand on the main platforms from February 1st. .

At the same time, after the sale in Germany, negotiations are already underway for distribution in other countries.


At the center of the story, in a language that "wants to combine reality and fairy tale, to represent today's children filtered from a distant world", says the director, is Pino (Arru), 11 years old forced by a hereditary disease, which makes him very fragile, to live confined to the house.

A daily life lived by the child, fond of superheroes, almost exclusively surrounded by adults: like his affectionate parents (Wurth and Paryla), but also his grandmother Helena, despotic and hyper-anxious (Goggi).

Everything changes when Pino meets Mavi (Barbolini), an enterprising peer at the head of one of the village's children's groups, the Snerds.

"I wanted to create a strong, incisive film that would engage the audience and reflect the purity and authenticity of childhood," says Rossi, who also pays homage to the Goonies.

Many changes compared to Silei's book (who loved the film very much), starting with the setting, which went from the end of the 19th century to the present day: "For me, the important thing was not to lose the energy and the authentic way it has Fabrizio to tell about childhood ".

Glassboy was also prophetic: "Pino is forced into the house by an illness, something that the children are really facing. Due to the pandemic in recent months they have been deprived of the possibility of living outside, the physicality of the school has been stolen. ".

In Glassboy, produced by Solaria Film with Peacock Film (Switzerland), Wildart Film (Austria) and Rai Cinema, one of the most interesting adult characters is Nonna Helena (Goggi, also among the interpreters of Back to the Crime by Massimiliano Bruno, ed): "I immediately said yes to Samuele, I liked to go back to doing what I did as a child, the children's TV, with which we had the ambition to make the younger audience a little more prepared and ready as a spectator and reader. This film can help us regain a place in such an important genre. "

The actress loved the challenge of the role: "Compared to my grandparents, who were very affectionate, Helena is different: she is terrified by the idea of ​​losing the grandson she sees so fragile. Instead, Pino's fragility is precisely her point of inner strength, another aspect that I identified with. The children on the set told me that Helena is a bit like Maleficent ... ".

Pino "is a kid who lives in all of us, anyone who has lived the experience of not being accepted by a group - explains Andrea Arru, class of 2007 -. He is a character who faces an inner conflict, he would like to make friends, but at the same time does not want to create problems for the fact of being sick ".

The entire cast of very young performers, many of whom are making their debut, underline the parallel between Pino's isolation and that caused by the pandemic: "I was starting to feel a lot of not going to school, I missed the daily interaction with my classmates. - says Stefano Trapuzzano -: luckily we're back now, at 50% but it's better than nothing ".

Source: ansa

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