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Carlo Sironi QUESTIONNAIRE
Carlo Sironi Answers the TAKE Film Questionnaire
WHAT’S THE LAST FILM YOU’VE SEEN?
Passe ton bac d’abord (Graduate First) by the late, great auteur and actor Maurice Pialat, at home. Lately I’ve been watching a lot of films about adolescence. In the theater, the most recent one was Rosi’s Notturno, our Oscar entry: a film I’d like to see again on the big screen, hopefully soon. WHICH SERIES IMPRESSED YOU MOST?
So many. I’m a huge Mad Men fan. I watch it again and
Jacopo Salvi
again, just like those books that leave a lasting impression and you end up reading them more than once. In it, I find the American literature I love: Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, John Updike. WHAT FILM HASN’T BEEN MADE THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE?
An adaptation of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick’s masterpiece. It would require a stroke of genius to see that idea in a different way and perhaps in another time. And you’d have to stay true to the novel’s complexity. CARLO SIRONI, born in Rome in 1983, first gained attention with three shorts: Sofia (2010, in competition at the Turin Film Festival), Cargo (2013, in competition in Venice; nominated for the David di Donatello Best Short Film Award) and Valparaiso (2016, in competition at Locarno). In 2019, he directed the feature Sole, which premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale 2020. Sironi received two Best Debut Director nominations for Sole, at the Nastri d’argento and David di Donatello Awards; he won the Prix FIPRESCI Best European Revelation at the 33rd European Film Awards.
ON WHAT WOULD YOU NOT SPEND ANOTHER PENNY?
Junk food. I just don’t like it anymore, not even as a guilty pleasure. Life is way too short to eat badly. WHAT’S THE LAST PHOTO YOU TOOK?
The last butterflies I saw, which were stitched onto a towel. I can hardly wait to be out in nature and see some real ones.
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