Luca Guadagnino continues his visionary stamp of approval on rising artists — like Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” or current arthouse favourite “April” from director Dea Kulumbegashvili — with one other competition favourite newcomer. Giovanni Tortorici, who introduced his writing/directing function debut “Diciannove” to the Venice Horizons part final 12 months, is Guadagnino’s newest discover. And he’s concerning the U.S. audiences’ discover, too, as this stressed coming-of-ager a couple of reckless younger man is coming to stateside theaters on July 25. IndieWire shares the unique trailer. Watch within the video above.
Right here’s the synopsis: “A daring, brash and unflinching coming-of-age drama, ‘Diciannove‘ (the movie’s title interprets to ‘nineteen’ in Italian) follows the highs and lows of a stressed youth because it collides headlong into the concrete realities of maturity when Leonardo (Manfredi Marini), an adolescent from Palermo leaves dwelling for the primary time. His research land him in Siena, by the use of London, the place he clashes together with his teacher, the curriculum, and most chaotically, with himself.” (Learn IndieWire’s evaluation right here.)
Guadagnino found Gen Z Sicilian filmmaker Giovanni Tortorici when he labored as an assistant director on Guadagnino’s HBO miniseries “We Are Who We Are.” Tortorici’s slippery debut “Diciannove” is an exuberantly directed coming-of-age story a couple of 19-year-old (therefore the title) on a journey from a dead-end stint at enterprise college to discovering his love of the Italian classics — and exquisite women and men.
Leonardo will remind you of the nice coming-of-age characters, like Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel within the movies of François Truffaut, as Tortorici crafts a bildungsroman about his hero’s sentimental and literary schooling. He’s bought sturdy opinions about filmmakers, together with Pasolini — whose “Salò” Leonardo jerks off to in a scene that crops the seed for a a lot darker movie beneath the floor — and is ultimately labeled as somebody incel-adjacent by a literary mentor. Leonardo’s sexuality can also be ambiguous, with an curiosity in women and men hinted at, and in addition a fascination with a bunch of Siena youngsters who you possibly can’t inform if he needs to fuck them, kill them, or be them. At one level, Leonardo seems up Justin Bieber’s nudes, which the filmmakers used with none permission or clearance, understanding the pop star will most likely by no means see this movie.
However Tortorici doesn’t essentially establish with the darker impulses you may learn into the character, whereas explaining in an IndieWire interview at Venice final 12 months that this movie is torn instantly from the pages of his personal life. Look out for “Diciannove” in theaters from Oscilloscope July 25.