(ANSA) - VENICE, 04 SEPT - It is "pure chance" that Pierfrancesco Favino in recent times both reminds us of our past on the screen, historical characters such as Bettino Craxidi Hammamet by Gianni Amelio, the repentant Buscetta del Traitor by Marco Bellocchio or as the lawyer opportunist of Gabriele Muccino's Annipiù belli, up to the father hero of Padrenostro for whom he is at the Venice Film Festival, the eco-producer of the film competing for the Golden Lion and in cinemas from 24 September with Vision.
The story directed by Claudio Noce is inspired by the true story of the director, whose parent was vice-officer in charge of the anti-terrorism section of Lazio and Abruzzo, who escaped an attack by the Proletarian Armed Nuclei on 14 December 1976 and from then on placed under guard.
"This film is a letter to my father, to tell him why he still hopes today", says to ANSA Noce, who grew up with the nightmare that the terrorists would return to finish the job, infamously breathing the heavy air of those years.
Favino is precisely that father, Alfonso Noce in reality, "in whom I also recognized mine, those fathers of the past who did not embrace you, did not show feelings, did not cry because if they had done so they would have been 'less male' and you had to understand them like this' , snatch their emotions secretly ".
In the relationship between this father and the son who is the protagonist traumatized by the event, there is a great deal of the fresco of the family of the 70s, the one not yet changed by feminism and the demands of equality, that of fathers who were not yet friends of their children and hid all fragility.
Favino succeeds very well, with his steady gestures, that authoritarian gaze even before authoritative that many boys of that time knew at home as a form of training.
"I have no grudge for those parents, it was their way of protecting us", continues Noce, who explained "the very emotion of the private screening of the Father in Rome. My father was happy, he has difficulty in experiencing emotions, but I understand that he was" .
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