synopsis
Costantino flooded his wife with love letters, sent films of his travels, and even wrote a romance novel about her. His grandson, Rocco di Mento, knows him only through stories, and so seventy years later he travels from Berlin back to his native Italy to learn more about his grandfather. However, as family reunions bring disturbed interpersonal relationships to the surface, Rocco witnesses the distancing, resentment and frustration of unrequited feelings passed down across generations. His introspective and subtly nostalgic film deconstructs the myth of great love and asks what the force that holds people together is.
„In the film we use all the pieces of stories and messages to deconstruct the ideal love and go to the real life. Real life was a bit bitter than a dream but it was real.”
biography
Rocco Di Mento (1984) is an Italian independent filmmaker who has been based in Berlin since 2010. He studies documentary film directing at the Film University Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg where he made his medium-length film
The Demon, The Flow and Me.
The Blunder of Love is his feature debut.
more about film
| director: | Rocco Di Mento |
| producer: | Valeria Venturelli |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2021 |
| section: | Doc Alliance Selection |
| language: | Italian, English |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour and B&W |
Info
| director: | Rocco Di Mento |
| original title: | The Blunder of Love |
| country: | Germany |
| year: | 2020 |
| running time: | 84 min. |
