Molecules, the silence of a father and of Venice

(ANSA) - VENICE, 01 SEPT - "The fragility of life in the heart of a Venice that slowly empties, marvelous and afraid". This is the perfect logline of MOLECOLE, a docufilm by Andrea Segre which is at the same time a long letter to his father, resurrected in the memories at the time of the pandemic, and a tribute to an enchanting Venice wonderfully empty. The docu-film, pre-opening at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2-12 September) and in cinemas from 3 September with Zalab Film in collaboration with Lucky Red, tells of a forced pause, the one experienced by the director between February and April this year, due to Covid. Blocked by the lockdown in Venice, the city of his father, where he was working on two great themes of the city, tourism and high water, Segresi thus finds himself in an empty Venice to deal with. So, as happened to everyone in the lockdown, he messed with the memories he found in the family home. Among these, the super 8 of his father Ulderico, professor of Chemistry and Physics in Modena and ReggioEmilia, that too silent parent who always had little to say to him. "The silence of Venice during the pandemic, I don't know why - says the director to ANSA - led me back to my father's silence. Then, back in Rome, I found the letters he had written to my father to which he never replied, even if my mother told me she kept them with great care ". In the film, personal memories alternate with convenezian encounters that tell, each in their own way, their Venice, their relationship with high water and tourism and, above all, that city that no longer exists and that in some ways now reappears in the great void of Covid. (HANDLE).