My Dad Is a 100 Years Old

Actress Isabella Rossellini is anticipating the celebrations for the birth of her father, film maker Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) - that will be in 2006 - with this affective, profound script able to summarize all of the sources of cinema. As part of the scene, she plays several roles - herself, that of producer David O. Selznick, directors Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini, actor and director Charles Chaplin, and actress Ingrid Bergman, her mother. Through all of these characters, she stages a live debate between all of them and Rossellini himself - represented by an enormous girth, a sign of her childhood memories the actress had of her father when she was very young. As a subject for this conversation in an oneiric atmosphere, is Rossellini?s ideal that the cinema would illustrate everybody?s mind, the significance of artistic intervention, of nostalgia and of memory.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA