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\nLuca Guadagnino didn\u2019t come to Switzerland to share updates on the drama surrounding his OpenAI\u00a0movie, Artificial<\/em>, during a meeting with reporters at the\u00a079th edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival.\u00a0No, he was in town to sing the praises of a prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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\n\tTo be precise, Guadagnino came to Locarno, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, to discuss Kettic\u00e8<\/em>, the sophomore feature of his former assistant, writer-director Giovanni Tortorici (Diciannove<\/em>). The coming-of-age drama stars Salvatore Gallina, Rachele Testagrossa and Monica Bellucci. And yes, the movie\u2019s list of producers includes Guadagnino.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in Palermo, Sicily in 2012, the era of media mogul-turned-politician Silvio Berlusconi, the movie revolves around Giulio, a listless and dissatisfied 16-year-old who drifts through his days without any enthusiasm for school and no real future prospects. But his encounter with Ketty, a more self-assured peer, offers him an escape from the monotony. The two form a close friendship, which a synopsis describes as \u201ca shared refuge in their search for freedom, far from the judgmental gaze of the adult world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film\u2019s title refers to Ketty\u2019s nickname in the Sicilian dialect. Bellucci plays Giulio\u2019s mother in an aristocratic Sicilian family that leaves her feeling oppressed. The cinematography is by Camilla Cattabriga, with editing by Marco Costa. PiperPlay is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuadagnino was asked by reporters about Italy\u2019s rich cinematic history and if his decision to produce Tortorici\u2019s movie was his way of keeping that tradition alive. \u201cMost definitely,\u201d he replied. \u201cI think that we can agree that historically, Italian cinema, from the silent times until the \u201970s, generated some of the most important personalities in the history of cinema, but also as an industry, had created a system that was the envy of many other countries. There were many different kind of films being made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut then, something happened with \u201cthe advent of private TV and the Berlusconi empire,\u201d Guadagnino offered. \u201cIt dried [up], and most of what was produced for cinema became TV. Genre was killed. A pretension on authorship became such that the great idea of cinema as authorship became basically people writing scripts and shooting their own scripts so that they could define themselves as authors.\u201d In the end, \u201cthe movie industry shrunk and the perspective shrunk and the cinema of Italy became sterile and totally devoid of an idea of language and of an idea of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s where Tortorici comes in. \u201cSo when you meet a personality like Giovanni, who, of course, is an Italian filmmaker working in Italy, but I like to think that he\u2019s a filmmaker, period, when you meet someone that is a complete rarity in the landscape of Italian cinema, you must protect it,\u201d Guadagnino concluded. \u201cYou must make sure that every stone is not left unturned in order to give him the means to express himself. For me, introducing films such as Giovanni\u2019s movies is a way to \u2026 set up a pavement into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnd he emphasized: \u201cIt\u2019s about the mindset. The mindset means how you do your stuff, what stories you want to tell, how you understand reality, how you interpret reality. How you run away from falseness is intoxicating for all its truth, all its incredible, vivid reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a producer, Guadagnino shared that he likes to watch a movie and experience it like anyone else in a movie theater. His audience take on Kettic\u00e8<\/em>: \u201cAs an audience member, I feel the movie really speaks in a very universal way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTortorici said his film explores how institutions, such as school, family and the state, fail kids. \u201cI think the guilty ones are the adults,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI think they just live in a cultural context of the ultra-capitalist contest and a mediatic world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDoes Tortorici have any vision for his cinematic future after two autobiographically inspired films? \u201cIn my next movie, I\u2019m going to explore something that is very far from me,\u201d he offered. \u201cShooting this movie, I met a lot of people in Palermo, even coming from difficult neighborhoods with difficult life experiences. I find in these stories the possibility to continuing to explore this struggle of young people with authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tContinued Tortorici: \u201cI think the big problem of society is the structure of, for example, the family. I think family is the structure that [creates] the next repressed person. So I would very much like to explore these different experiences in all parts of society, family in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n

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