Giorgio Diritti's 'Lubo', the last of
six Italian contenders for the Golden Lion at this year's 80th
Venice Film Festival, makes its world premiere on Thursday.
The other films defending Italy's colours are 'Comandante' by
Edoardo De Angelis starring Pierfrancesco Favino, which opened
the fest last week; 'Io Capitano' by Matteo Garrone, which
showed Wednesday; 'Finalmente l'alba' by Saverio Costanzo;'Enea'
by Pietro Castellitto; and 'Adagio' by Stefano Sollima, again
starring Favino alongside Toni Servillo and Valerio Mastandrea.
Adapted from the novel 'Il seminatore' by Mario Cavatore, 'Lubo'
is the story of a Swiss Traveller (Jenisch) fighting to get his
three confiscated children back.
On Thursday, the director of 'Volevo Nascondermi' about the
sculptor Antonio Liagbue told ANSA the protagonist "is a poor
Christ in the good sense of the word, who is a street artist and
who finds himself being subjected to something bigger than
himself, a great injustice; seeing that his children, while he
is forced to be a soldier in the Swiss army preparing to defend
the borders against the risk of a German invasion, are taken
away only because he is a nomad, who does not have a stable
abode.
"His different way of living becomes a discriminating factor
that then unleashes what will become a chain of evil of which he
is part but which he could and would reverse believing in the
possibility of remaking his life, in love, in justice".
Dirotti said the film highlighted the importance of not becoming
resigned to indifference, that scenes like those coming out of
Ukraine every day can be accepted because they have now become
familiar.
"This is the most dramatic moment in my view: getting used to
war means accepting also discrimination towards people who may
one day be us".
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