Emanuele Crialese On How His Identity Shaped His Latest Film ‘L’immensità’ With Penélope Cruz — Venice
deadline.comEmanuele Crialese put in a buoyant performance at the Venice Film Festival Sunday, during which he discussed how his identity informed his Golden Lion contender L’immensità.“The inspiration was my childhood and my story that is being transposed and reinterpreted,” Crialese said of the flick. “I tried to find the good interpretation in it.
I didn’t want it to be self-referential. I didn’t want to talk about just me. As I try to do with every film I make, I’ve tried to somehow represent in a broader way the topics I really care for like migration.
The migration of a soul. That means a transition from one state to another one.”Crialese added that he cares deeply about the topics in the film, which he said he “interpreted in an autobiographical way.”Set in 1970s Rome, the film follows the Borghetti family that has just moved into one of the many freshly-built apartment blocks in the city.
Despite the beautiful, sweeping views of the city from their top-floor apartment, the family is not as close as they once were.
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