10 · 21 · 19 Magari, Ginevra Elkann’s directorial debut, between joy and nostalgia Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo French filmmaker Ginevra Elkann presented her film Magari (2019) at the 17th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival. Magari, which opened the 72nd edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, addresses the life of three sons with divorced parents who live with their bourgeois, orthodox, Russian mother in Paris and are sent to live in Rome with Carlo, their Italian father who is bankrupt. Ginevra Elkann On her debut, Elkann said, “what we wanted to portray with Chiara Barzini, with whom I wrote the script, was the feeling that these boys, which is dramatic, but as in life, things are not only black or white, but grey. I think that telling it this way makes the feelings stronger. In addition, the filmmaker mentioned that the name of the film is for magari, a word that only exists in Italian “and which conjugates joy and melancholy, something very close to the feeling of the film, where joy is found in fantasy.” “We wanted to place the story in a world with no cellphones, with a sense of isolation because you couldn’t communicate everything, but it’s also a film around memory and that is my memory. For me it is interesting to see that nostalgic side today,” concluded Elkann.
