Venice Winner Péter Kerekes Returns to Lido With Astrology-Themed ‘Wishing on a Star,’ Debuts First Clip: ‘Everyone’s Looking for Love’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga Instead of “Wishing on a Star,” Slovak filmmaker Péter Kerekes makes his dreams come true, returning to Lido – and Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section – with his latest film.
In 2021, Kerekes picked up the Horizons award for best screenplay alongside Ivan Ostrochovský for “107 Mothers.” Now, he is back in Venice with “Wishing on a Star,” but he didn’t immediately jump at the chance to follow Luciana de Leoni D’Asparedo, a Neapolitan astrologer who asks her clients to take life-changing trips on their birthdays in order to be “reborn.” “It felt like an absurd story,” jokes Kerekes. “My Austrian producer Ralph Wieser kept asking me to work with Erica Barbiani on a film about astrology.
She wanted me to direct it. I was saying ‘no’ for three consecutive years. ‘Come on, I don’t believe in it. I don’t even read horoscopes!’ But I wanted to be polite, so we had dinner with Luciana.
The moment I met her, I changed my mind,” he reveals to Variety. “I may not believe in astrology, but I believe in her.” The film, produced by Wieser, Barbiani, Kerekes, Lucia Candelpergher, Anna Mach Rumanová, Vít Schmarc, Vanja Jambrovic, Tibor Keser and Stefano Centini, debuts an exclusive clip above.
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