(2024, Italy, 107')
Bologna, 1940s. A young man with mental issues and literary aspirations falls hopelessly in love with an American army auxiliary after a brief glance. A year later, the uniqueness of his situation leads him to live in the American Midwest, in a house adjacent but separated by a sinister garden from the one where the elderly mother of the soldier lives. Since the end of the conflict, she has not been heard from.
Pupi Avati (Bologna, 1938) is a director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, renowned as one of the major figures in contemporary Italian cinema. He competed at the Venice Film Festival with Una gita scolastica in 1983, Tre sorelle in 1986, and more recently with Il papà di Giovanna in 2008, featuring Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, and Alba Rohrwacher.
Focus on the Italian director who closes Venezia 18 with the Out of Competition film "The American Garden"
