(2023, Italia, 115')
Enea pursues the myth of the epic hero whose name he carries, and this makes him feel alive in an age of decadence. With Valentino, his aviator friend, he shares a youth consumed by drug dealing and parties. Friends since forever, Enea and Valentino are at once victims and creators of the corrupt world that surrounds them, always driven by a vitality they believe to be uncorruptible. Pietro Castellitto returns to the Venice Film Festival, this time in competition, after winning the award for Best Screenplay with I predatori, his directorial debut presented in the Horizons section in 2020.
Thirty-something actor and director Pietro Castellitto’s first film was The Predators, which earned him the Best Screenplay prize at the Orizzonti Section in 2020. As an actor, he moved his first steps quite early—his father, established filmmaker Sergio Castellitto, directed him in Don’t Move, adapted from Pietro’s mother and Sergio’s wife Margaret Mazzantini’s novel of the same name. The family used the same tactic in 2012 for Twice Born. In 2010, Pietro appeared in Love & Slaps, and in 2018, he was awarded the Guglielmo Biraghi Prize for his interpretation of Secco in The Prophecy of the Armadillo.
