More fairy tale than comedy, more feelings than jokes: Leonardo Pieraccioni's latest film, Pare parecchio Parigi, arrives in cinemas from 18 January with 01 Distribution, which someone has already renamed Pare poco Pieraccioni. "On the threshold of sixty years of age," says Pieraccioni today in Rome, "I wanted to deal more analytically with the family and those acrimony that are always there and that, if desired, can be resolved in twelve hours. A lot of comedy films have been made and the audience has become a little disaffected, so I thought of a film that didn't even feel like mine."
It seems quite Paris, based on a story written by Pieraccioni with Filippo Bologna, is freely inspired by a true story, that of the brothers Michele and Gianni Bugli who in 1982 left with their sick father in a caravan and made him believe that they had arrived in Paris almost never leaving their farm. "The film is dedicated to them," the Tuscan director continues, "and to all dreamers." This is the story. To fulfill the wish of their very ill old father (Nino Frassica) to take a trip to Paris with their children, three siblings (Pieraccioni, Chiara Francini and Giulia Bevilacqua), who have not spoken to each other for years, pretend to leave Florence with him in a camper van, which will never leave the confines of a riding school. That trip, staged because the children have been forbidden to remove their father from the hospital that entrusted him to them, will become an irresistible opportunity to try to bring the brothers closer together and try to reconcile with their father.
What does Pieraccioni think of political correctness? "I think it's fundamentally folkloric and unbelievable, but it will eventually pass. I'll give you an example," the director told reporters, "my editor, Patrizio Marone, said to me at a certain point: 'why don't we take off that little hat you give your sister, it could be annoying'. But that was just a joke of those who love each other, today unfortunately everything can be misinterpreted and it's a joke." Is there a possibility of making a sequel to The Graduates Thirty Years Later? "Of course, the curiosity to go and see what happened to them after thirty years is certainly there, let's see, you never know." And again Pieraccioni, talking about this 'turning point' film that comes two years after The Sex of Angels: "It seems like Paris was just the right time to do it and then I'm proud of it because my daughter told me: 'you made a really good film'. However, I confess that I am afraid of feelings: in some moments I was really excited."
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