Love, America, and Cannibalism—Luca Guadagnino
The Oscar-nominated Director ('Call Me by Your Name,' 'I Am Love,' 'Bones and All,' 'Suspiria,' 'We are Who we Are') on film-making... and life
A car heads up to the foot of the Alps in the hills between Liguria and France. Paolo Masieri’s vegetable garden, country house, and herbs are all there—in a place difficult to reach. From the sea to the land he cultivates, Paolo is totally focused on his craft.
The camera follows him, moving amongst the twigs like a weasel, smelling the moss and the dry chestnut leaves. Everything is the sound of life, hands deriving nutrition from things.
Very few distilled words, many images of everyday life punctuated by the work, reflection and vision of a chef who, with wife Barbara, counterbalances the clichés of the cooking show of the moment.
Paolo cuts and restores, breaks and recomposes. He is both magician and wizard, master of a quiet sort of magic that breathes with the surroundings. It’s the only way the amber light that reddens the hills can explode and transform those who eat.
Paolo’s miracle in Sanremo—feeding oneself from life to be able to feed, to be able to disappear in everything one has ever belonged to since birth.
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