Abel Ferrara, Christina and Anna Ferrara – Piazza Vittorio #Venezia74

September 8, 2017

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Abel Ferrara, director of the film Piazza Vittorio, here in Venice with his family.

Abel Ferrara stops by our Venice studio with his family, Christina and Anna. We have the chance to talk about his documentary Piazza Vittorio, dedicated to one of the most iconic squares in Rome.

Piazza Vittorio is the biggest square in Rome. Both the square and the adjacent districts of the Esquiline stand out for the multiethnic variety of their inhabitants. Here, in fact, we find a range of ethnic groups from nearby and far away: Romans, Asians, North Africans and Indians who make the square and neighborhood a lively place but at the same time one that is not easy to manage. Precisely because of its unique and colorful nature, many artists and other figures with ties to the world of cinema, like Matteo Garrone and Willem Dafoe, have chosen to make it their home. Among them is the great director Abel Ferrara, who has decided to portray this world from his own independent and poetic point of view, putting himself physically on the line in the production of the film. Out of this has come a surreal and neorealist picture of a day in the square’s life, with interviews with illegal and legal immigrants, tramps, artists, proprietors of businesses and politicians who give their personal accounts of the place. It is the portrait not just of a square, but of an Italy that is changing and that is trying at all costs to go down the road of integration, often underestimating the side effects.

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