ItalianoRiverrun
24 October 21:30
Giulio Cesare - sala 7
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
Lucy, a musician, is gradually losing control over her own body and her voice. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Cruz, sends her to a clinic specialized in psychological disorders in Spain, where Lucy meets the mysterious Tony. What starts as an experimental therapeutic treatment slowly turns into a journey of self-discovery and transformation that will reawaken powerful invisible forces.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
The film neither explains nor glorifies depression and treatment for it. It shifts from the person to the environment, from suffering to its duration. A person gives up that center-stage, accepts not being a sovereign subject any more, but continuity, duration, and landscape instead. And it’s just this radical, empathetic act that prevents the film from being weighed down by exposition, and allows it to embrace a certain narrative opacity in full. If we consider depression to be a slowing down of the geologic time scale, and emotion no longer a crisis but a climate, we can say we have avoided the huge trap of spectacular resilience, in particular through therapy.
Director
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno (born in Grenoble, France, in 1964) is one of the most influential artists of his generation. He won acclaim in the 1990s for redefining the way to experience art and transforming the art exhibition into a situational process. His works have been exhibited in leading museums and international foundations. He is also known for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, co-directed with Douglas Gordan, and screened at Cannes in 2006. He won an award at the Locarno Festival and was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014.