Carlo Sironi: 'Almost everything in the videotape scenes is taken out of what I did when I had my first camera' In his second film, director Carlo Sironi weaves a coming-of-age story focused on two teen girls who find respite from their difficult past on a Sicilian island. Delving into nostalgia and adolescent daydreaming, My Summer With Irène invites the viewer to absorb the tangible feeling of the season and engage with the heartfelt story of the two young protagonists.
At this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Sironi shared insights into the origin of his poignant narrative, what makes a coming-of-age movie for him and the contrasting ways in which VHS cameras and phone cameras make us feel.
What inspired you to tell this kind of nostalgic story?
Carlo Sironi: It's really strange because it starts with that song from the end credits, To Wish Impossible Things by The Cure.
At this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Sironi shared insights into the origin of his poignant narrative, what makes a coming-of-age movie for him and the contrasting ways in which VHS cameras and phone cameras make us feel.
What inspired you to tell this kind of nostalgic story?
Carlo Sironi: It's really strange because it starts with that song from the end credits, To Wish Impossible Things by The Cure.
- 3/14/2024
- by Sergiu Inizian
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ukrainian drama project Screaming Girl has scooped the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The feature won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, which went to Kyiv-based producers Forefilms.
Director Antonio Lukich is known for comedy-drama Luxembourg, Luxembourg, which screened in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival in 2022. His debut was My Thoughts Are Silent, which won a special jury prize at Karlovy Vary in 2019.
Screaming Girl centres on a girl who, after the invasion of Ukraine, finds herself in Ireland and pursues her dream of becoming an actress. However, she begins to experience strange and fantastical events that disrupt her life,...
The feature won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, worth €20,000, which went to Kyiv-based producers Forefilms.
Director Antonio Lukich is known for comedy-drama Luxembourg, Luxembourg, which screened in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival in 2022. His debut was My Thoughts Are Silent, which won a special jury prize at Karlovy Vary in 2019.
Screaming Girl centres on a girl who, after the invasion of Ukraine, finds herself in Ireland and pursues her dream of becoming an actress. However, she begins to experience strange and fantastical events that disrupt her life,...
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama
There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll one has access to. At least this seems to be the overall message in Carlo Sironi’s sophomore film My Summer with Irène, (Quell’estate con Irène), which finds an unexpected friendship between two young women blossoming through their shared angst and adventurous sense of rebellion. A period piece set in 1997, Sicily, which is visualized mostly through the technology used to document their errant journey, Sironi sidesteps the usual kinds of musical indicators cementing this time capsule.…...
There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll one has access to. At least this seems to be the overall message in Carlo Sironi’s sophomore film My Summer with Irène, (Quell’estate con Irène), which finds an unexpected friendship between two young women blossoming through their shared angst and adventurous sense of rebellion. A period piece set in 1997, Sicily, which is visualized mostly through the technology used to document their errant journey, Sironi sidesteps the usual kinds of musical indicators cementing this time capsule.…...
- 2/19/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Over the past few years Italian cinema has been making strides in the global arena and 2024 looks likely to bolster its international standing. New works by top auteurs Paolo Sorrentino and Luca Guadagnino will be launching from the festival circuit just as a fresh crop of directors comes to fore, starting with Margherita Vicario, whose first film “Gloria!” scored a Berlin competition slot.
Below is a compendium of new Italian movies set to hit this year’s fest circuit.
“Another End” – Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worse Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s sci-fi film “Another End” which is competing in Berlin. This second feature by Messina – whose first feature, “The Wait,” launched with a splash in the 2015 Venice competition – is set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of...
Below is a compendium of new Italian movies set to hit this year’s fest circuit.
“Another End” – Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve (“The Worse Person in the World”) star as lovers caught in an unusual bind in Italian director Piero Messina’s sci-fi film “Another End” which is competing in Berlin. This second feature by Messina – whose first feature, “The Wait,” launched with a splash in the 2015 Venice competition – is set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of...
- 2/17/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s Fandango Sales has taken global distribution rights outside Italy to Carlo Sironi’s coming-of-age drama “My Summer With Irène,” which will premiere in the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation section.
Sironi, whose first feature “Sole” made a splash on the international fest circuit, is back with this relationship drama starring rising French indie star Noée Abita (“Slalom”) and Maria Camilla Barandenburg (“Slam Italia”) playing two 17-year-olds named Clara and Irène who both have health issues. Shortly after meeting, they run away together to an island where they experience an unforgettable summer.
“Sole,” a love story intertwined with a baby trafficking plot and commentary on Italy’s surrogacy law, went to Venice and Toronto in 2019, catching the eye of master Vittorio Taviani, who chose Sironi as his on-stage partner for Berlin’s 2020 On Transmission director-on-director talks.
Sironi was among Variety’s 10 European Directors to Watch in 2020.
“Summer With Irène...
Sironi, whose first feature “Sole” made a splash on the international fest circuit, is back with this relationship drama starring rising French indie star Noée Abita (“Slalom”) and Maria Camilla Barandenburg (“Slam Italia”) playing two 17-year-olds named Clara and Irène who both have health issues. Shortly after meeting, they run away together to an island where they experience an unforgettable summer.
“Sole,” a love story intertwined with a baby trafficking plot and commentary on Italy’s surrogacy law, went to Venice and Toronto in 2019, catching the eye of master Vittorio Taviani, who chose Sironi as his on-stage partner for Berlin’s 2020 On Transmission director-on-director talks.
Sironi was among Variety’s 10 European Directors to Watch in 2020.
“Summer With Irène...
- 2/15/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Part of the Generation 14plus selection at the upcoming Berlinale, My Summer with Irène is the highly anticipated sophomore feature by Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi. After breaking out with Sole (at the Venice in the Orizzonti section and Toronto Intl. Film Festival), Sironi turns back the clock setting his latest feature in Italy, 1997. The synopsis reads as such: Clara and Irène, both 17, meet at a summer camp organized by the hospital who treats them. Clara is shy while Irene is untamed – they instantly become inseparable friends. Instead of going back to their families, they decide to run away to a faraway island off the coast of Sicily to live their first summer as young women.…...
- 1/29/2024
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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