PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eva Cools, director of the film Cleo.
Eva Cools tells the story of a young girl who loses her parents in a car accident with no responsible and tries ti cope with this fact. the director then bases part of the film on her personal story but then the analysis of the issue of grief and guilt becomes more universal, and haunting too.
Cleo: Seventeen-year-old Cleo survives a tragedy accident in which both parents lose their life. His grandmother offers Cleo and her brother a house, but ends up having to manage the rebellious teenager, the which seeks comfort in the mysterious Leos, a man of twelve years older.
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