Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi talk about teaming up to document a generation shaped by social media, Covid and climate change
In February 2020, three celebrated Italian film-makers began work on a movie that would give voice to a generation they felt was not often seen, and even less often heard. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher had left acclaimed individual projects – Marcello’s sweeping proletarian epic Martin Eden (2019), Munzi’s slow-burning crime drama Black Souls (2014) and Rohrwacher’s magic-realist countryside fable Happy as Lazzaro (2018) – to begin work on a film that featured young people across Italy speaking about their hopes, fears and thoughts about the future.
The three wanted to capture the mood of a moment in history; to produce a document that later generations would refer back to. Then as the weeks passed, and news of a virus began dominating the headlines, they found themselves in the curious position of asking teenagers about their hopes for the future at a moment when time itself felt frozen, and what was coming next seemed increasingly uncertain.
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