The immensity "is a story that concerns me very closely, it is my story in a poetic key, it would be reductive to call it my 'coming out', the audience would think of a film about transition but it is not like that at all", he tells the ANSA
Emanuele Crialese
, today in competition with the new awaited film, in theaters with Warner Bros from 15 September.
IMMENSITY
with
Penelope Cruz
, Vincenzo Amato, set in a "metaphysical" Rome of the '70s among buildings under construction in the suburbs, tells the story of a family in which love has ended and in unhappiness the mother raises three children, the eldest of which, teenager xx, rejects his name and his sensual identity.
"Times have changed, today's young people no longer care about gender classifications, in this they are teachers, bearers of a new sensitivity, male, female, they are what they are, first of all human beings".
Crialese, who is moved by remembering his mother and the support she has always given him along his path, says: "I am a child of my time, but times have changed today", underlines the director of Respiro e Terraferma at ANSA.
"Families must be supported when there are certain paths to be covered, my mother was alone, she did not know where to turn her head. I changed the 'a' to the 'e' and I had to leave a piece of my body, but I am man and no, woman and no and I want to stay like this and I hope not to threaten anyone for this ".
In the Immensity at the center, in addition to the 'gender fluid' girl, there is the mother, the great archetype played by Cruz.
"Female characters are the ones that interest me and for whom I make films, male characters are a bore".
THE PROGRAM OF TODAY
The third of the five Italians competing,
L'IMMENSITÀ by Emanuele Crialese with Penelope Cruz
, is among the protagonists today, 4 September at the Venice International Film Festival.
The Italian filmmaker, on his return to directing a feature film at the age of 11 from the mainland, called it a film about memory that needed a greater distance "and" first of all a film about the family. "The return to the Lido by Darren Aronofsky, Golden Lion in 2008 with The Wrestler, which this time presents THE WHALE, starring Brendan Fraser, in the role of a lonely and obese teacher who tries to reconnect with his teenage children.
Also in competition is the director and screenwriter Rebecca Zlotowski who is inspired by the relationship ended with her colleague Jacques Audiard for LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES.
Out of competition debuts the new documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa who in THE KIEV TRIAL returns to the past to tell the trial in Kiev in 1946 against the German Nazi hierarchs and their collaborators.
In Horizons TI EAT THE HEART by Pippo Mezzapesa makes its debut, the story, set on the Gargano, of a family feud and a forbidden love, with the actress debut of the singer Elodie.
Here are some of the main events of tomorrow: LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES by Rebecca Zlotowski (Venice 79) with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni (Sala Grande at 5pm).
Rachel is a 40-year-old teacher with no children.
When she falls in love with Ali, she also forms a deep bond with Leila, the man's four-year-old daughter.
She tucks her up before going to sleep, she takes care of her, loves her as if she were hers.
But loving the children of others is a big risk.
IMMENSITY by Emanuele Crialese (Venice 79) with Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni (Sala Grande at 7.15 pm).
Rome, seventies:
Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment.
Their marriage is over: they no longer love each other, but they can't break up.
To keep them united, only the children.
THE WHALE by Darren Aronofsky (Venice 79) with Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau (Sala Grande at 9.30pm).
A lonely English teacher suffering from severe obesity tries to reconnect with his teenage daughter, with whom he has lost contact, for one last chance at redemption.
THE KIEV TRIAL by Sergei Loznitsa (Out of competition), documentary (Sala Grande at 2.30pm).
The Kiev trial, also known as the 'Nuremberg of Kiev', took place in January 1946 in the Soviet Union and was one of the first postwar trials to condemn the German Nazis and their collaborators: fifteen criminals in the bar.
I EAT YOUR HEART by Pippo Mezzapesa (Orizzonti) with Elodie, Francesco Patanè, Francesco Di Leva, Lidia Vitale (Sala Darsena at 4.30 pm).
The Gargano promontory is disputed by criminals who seem to have come from a remote time governed by the law of the strongest.
To rekindle an ancient feud between two rival families is a forbidden love: that between Andrea, the reluctant heir of the Malatesta, and Marilena, the beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale.
(HANDLE).