What remains of Vittorio De Sica’s films today? In what measure his films stand today as essential models for those who to start a career in cinema all around the planet? It’s not casual that a masterpiece like The Bicycle Thief became an archetype that’s copied and quoted by filmmakers from all over the world, and it’s also not casual that De Sica’s work is an essential subject in every film school. Following the steps of that director –a main figure of Neorrealism, and as mythical as human– the filmmaking couple formed by Morri and Canale (whose Marco Ferreri, il regista che venne dal futuro, his portrait of another main figure of Italian cinema, is also screened this year in the Festival) makes a choral and incredibly expansive film in which the past blends with the present reflecting about the unanswered questions that hide behind every great artist. –Mar del Plata International Film Festival
