(2024, Italy, France, 110')
Father and daughter, cinema and life. A personal and autobiographical narrative that starts from an apparently perfect childhood and continues through a youth where growing up means making mistakes, falling, breaking, drifting away, then getting back up, returning, starting over, aging, but never losing oneself. Against this backdrop, the story of Italy unfolds, with its Years of Lead, political struggles, social revolutions, changes, as well as massacres and the spread of heroin—events that upheaved an entire generation’s life.
Daughter of Luigi and sister to Cristina, Francesca Comencini is a director and screenwriter. Her directorial debut came in 1984 with Pianoforte, which won the Premio De Sica at the Venice Film Festival. From that moment, her path was set: she directed numerous films including Mi piace lavorare (Mobbing) (2003), Lo spazio bianco (2009), and Un giorno speciale (2012); she also created significant documentaries, such as Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo (2002) about the G8 summit in Genoa; and cult series including some episodes of Gomorra (2014) and Django (2023).
