GIOIA MY
Type: educational-youth comedy
Direction: Margherita Spampinato. With Marco Fiore, Aurora Quattrocchi, Martina Ziami, Camille Dugay Comencini, Concetta Ingrassia, Renata Sajeva
The parents work, the beloved babysitter gets married and the young Nico, 10 years of impertinence and addiction to social media, is sent into “exile” in Sicilyin Trapani, by the elderly aunt Gela (the always admirable Aurora Quattrocchi).
Generational clash is inevitable, with cell phones confiscated and the obligation to take an afternoon nap. Not to mention the religious commitments that the aunt fulfills with suspicious zeal and which Nico tries to avoid in every way. In addition to the mystery of Gela’s marital status, strangely still “Miss”.
Marco Fiore and Aurora Quattrocchi in “Gioia mia” (© Yagi Media).
It will come into play his peer Rosa, who helps him make friends with the other kids in the building and will make him discover a world he didn’t suspect, populated by “ghosts” and strange presences.
A classic coming-of-age film structure, a theme that is certainly not new, but which newcomer Spampinato deals with with great delicacymaking the most of his experience as a casting manager and precisely guiding his actors – in addition to the boys also a chorus of grandmothers worried that no one goes without – managing to give a convincing portrait of how a young person can learn about life where he thought he wouldn’t find it.
For those who want to discover another way of growing.
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