“A choral adventure lived through the development of a boy and the natural routes that it entails. A contemporary and out of the ordinary age, in which there are almost more adults who seek and find guidance in children”, This small part will be enough. Some words extracted from the director’s notes of the film. they will be enough to capture the essence of the beginning of the film Emilia MazzacurtiCharles’s daughter. they will be enough, but cat deserves something else. Because sometimes one does not approach the first few times with preconceived notions, with disbelief; Let the fear of inexperience of a new form replace the curiosity to reveal ideas. And forget that, more often than not, products, actions or even just intuition come to the fore, in front of which lightness, fear and prejudice simply disappear.
Billy: Plot
first time of Emilia Mazzacurti Takes us to a quiet provincial town. He takes us to Billy. Boy (Matthew Oscar Giuggioli), abandoned by his father when he was still young, is a former child prodigy and the inventor of a successful music podcast. Now, at the age of nineteen, he lives with his mother, Regina (a freak). carla signoris) and spends most of his time in a caravan playing with Roberto (8 years old) and other children in the town. Billy has always suffered from panic attacks, he is secretly in love with neighbor Lena (blessed gris), Roberto’s sister, and doesn’t know what to do with her life.
Arrival in Zippo District (alessandro gasman), a once very famous rocker who fled in the middle of a concert and disappeared from view, however, turns the cards on the table. The meeting with Billy goes awry; And between the escapees, the gossips and the long silences, there are new avenues, new avenues for both; In the coming and going of bizarre characters fueled by fear for the past, present and future.
marginal land
Emilia Mazzacurti He returns to “the province”, to those semi-unknown tangles of roads that have long accompanied his father’s cinematic travels. His first story is framed by a small town in the north, a non-place (almost) timeless, punctuated only by the silent succession of moon phases. A frontier land (the protagonist’s nickname is Billy the Kid) with western nuances, marked by its peaceful rhythm and inhabited by distinctive figures – above all Massimo (Joseph Battiston), a shy firefighter in love with Regina, who lives in a boat house built on the river to combat the danger of fire.
Zippo’s unexpected intrusion is, in this sense, in some ways akin to the coming of the shepherd, the stranger without a name, who has come from far away in time and space. A wild Ethan Edwards, an obscure Django, here seen locally and brutally revisited in the existential amazement of a alessandro gasman A failure among failures, a forgotten middle-aged man with few dreams and many regrets.
Billy: A “Sui Generis” Coming-of-Age Story
There is an isolated town depicted by the director, the “daughter of art” full of children without fathers and children without fathers. but the generational link between having fun It’s not a particularly geographical question (or would it be better to call it scenic?). Rather, the beating heart of the film, its soul, connects father and daughter. being young, its (a) typical “formation” dynamics. Frankly the transversal dynamics in the history of cinema, which apart from being an almost palpable memory of the father’s work here (david summer1998), bring Majakurty’s film closer to the atmosphere of another debut, independent yes how Of oliver irving (2008).
If David and Art’s teenage infatuation (a very young Robert Pattinson) though represent the centralizing focus of their respective stories, describe cat Try a slightly different route; Centering on the story of the boy’s life to outline a illusory existence that relates to the entire community around him. and trace the boundaries of a provincial road it’s just not there Inhabited by children – more or less grown up – got lost.
awe and lightness
Perhaps in this enthusiasm, in this daring adventure Emilia Mazzacurti Loses some point of reference. And his “fairy tale”, like the rest of its characters, wanders at times disorganized, struggling to manage the iconic chorus and failing to find real coherent balance in managing its many interpreters.
However, good taste remains, a genuine curiosity; A desire to discover, beyond inexperience, whose glimpses will tempt the director’s gaze in the future, and which roads having fun He will drive his own car (filmed). With hope, not so far away, that we may soon find ourselves embracing light and wonder again cat, The wonder of the child and youth, the amazement of the adult who still does not know what awaits him on the way.