The other films defending Italy’s colours are Comandante by Edoardo De Angelis starring Pierfrancesco Favino, which opened the fest last week; Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone, which showed Wednesday; Finalmente l’alba by Saverio Costanzo; Enea by Pietro Castellitto; and Adagio by Stefano Sollima, again starring Favino alongside Toni Servillo and Valerio Mastandrea.
Adapted from the novel Il seminatore by Mario Cavatore, Lubo is the story of a Swiss Traveller (Jenisch) fighting to get his three confiscated children back.
On Thursday, the director of Volevo Nascondermi about the sculptor Antonio Liagbue told ANSA the protagonist “is a poor Christ in the good sense of the word, who is a street artist and who finds himself being subjected to something bigger than himself, a great injustice; seeing that his children, while he is forced to be a soldier in the Swiss army preparing to defend the borders against the risk of a German invasion, are taken away only because he is a nomad, who does not have a stable abode.
“His different way of living becomes a discriminating factor that then unleashes what will become a chain of evil of which he is part but which he could and would reverse, believing in the possibility of remaking his life, in love, in justice.”
Dirotti said the film highlighted the importance of not becoming resigned to indifference, that scenes like those coming out of Ukraine every day can be accepted because they have now become familiar.
“This is a most dramatic moment in my view; getting used to war means accepting also discrimination towards people who may one day be us.”
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