original title:
Arte del Naufragare
directed by:
screenplay:
producer:
production:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2024
format:
colour
status:
Development/Pre-production (24/01/2023)
March 2020. Dario, a big data analyst, is forced to return to Italy, due to the sudden death of his mother, whom he had not seen for years. His plans are to organize the funeral, put the house up for sale and return to his life in Bordeaux. But a tenant (Victoria), his mother's lover, and the sudden lockdown complicate his prospects, leading him to discover things about himself that he would never have imagined.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
The film, set during the 2020 lockdown, is not a story about the pandemic, but uses that context to place the two protagonists in a situation in which we have all lived unexpectedly, of which we have a collective memory, which slowly teaches them something about who they really are, how they were before and possibly won't be tomorrow. The time bubble that develops over the course of the film changes them profoundly.