Marco Bellocchio's 'Fai bei
sogni' (Sweet Dreams) is set to open the Quinzaine des
Realisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, which unusually this
year has no Italians vying for the Palme d'Or.
The adaptation of Massimo Gramellini's novel about grief
after the protagonist's mother's death stars Valerio Mastandrea,
Berenice Bejo, Guido Caprino and Barbara Ronchi.
Asked Thursday if he would have preferred to be in
competition, Bellocchio - of Fists in the Pocket and Sleeping
Beauty fame - said "I won't answer that question, I'll keep out
of that game. It's not my first time at the festival and this is
a serious work. Luckily the film will come out in the autumn and
we'll learn a lot from the reactions we get here",.
Asked what had interested him in journalist and writer
Gramellini's book, Bellocchio, 75, replied:
"It was proposed to me by the production, but I glimpsed in
this story something that profoundly belongs to me, and
professional maturity gives you the advantage of discovering
things that you feel in apparently far-off stories".
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