Asia Argento – Misunderstood (Incompresa) #KarlovyVaryFF

July 9, 2014

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Asia Argento, Director and co-screenwriter, Misunderstood (Incompresa).

Festival Section: Horizons.

FRED meets the filmmaker Asia Argento to talk about her latest work MISUNDERSTOOD (Incompresa), which was shown at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Nine-year-old Aria is finding it hard to come to terms with her parents’ stormy breakup. Both are successful and famous, and both find their daughter equally inconvenient. While her two stepsisters use conformity as conciliation – one focusing on their father, the other on their mother – Aria isn’t welcome to live with either of her separated parents, and she continually shuttles back and forth carrying her bag and her black cat. In a story set in the 1980s, well-known actress and (since 2000) director Asia Argento explores the topsy-turvy life of a girl who, despite all her difficulties, holds on to her innocence. And although the director doesn’t deny that she drew in part on her own experiences, she refutes the idea that the work is autobiographical. She offers, “Who, during their childhood, never had the feeling of being misunderstood in the eyes of others, starting with one’s own parents?” Screened in Un certain regard at Cannes, the film attracted attention for its expressive style and Giulia Salerno’s performance as the young heroine.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

Written by: fredfilmradio

49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Asia Argento Director and Co-Screenwriter Horizons Matt Micucci Misunderstood (Incompresa).

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Asia Argento

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Misunderstood (Incompresa)

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Karlovy Vary Film Festival

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