Nel living room of What time does it do, Pupi Avati is told with extraordinary sincerityspeaking of his latest film, The American vegetable gardenand del relationship with old age. «The plot concerns a lot of myself. It is the first film that really enters the most secret and intimate part of myself. In the sense that I reveal things that not even my children and my wife knew. “
Pupi Avati and the “Rosary of the Dead”
Then, in an intense voice, he confides his night ritual: «I every evening, before falling asleep, in this fourth-quint-session-session age of life, which is old age, to soothe and silence this anguish, how do I do it? I open the computer and I have a list of names: they are all the people who have been close to me in life, my father, mother … In the countryside the rosary of the dead is called». A simple and poignant gesture, which becomes his way of dealing with the passing time, a deep bond with those who are no longer there and a refuge against solitude.
The appeal to the public: «I lost 780 euros. If someone found them, you call me “
But the interview also had an unexpected moment: Avati launched a singular appeal to the nine public, Telling that he had lost 780 euros in cash he kept in a clothespin: “If someone found them, phones me”said with the candor that distinguishes it. An episode that aroused the hilarity of Fabio Fazio and the spectators, with the conductor who ironized the possibility of finding them. But the director insisted: «With those 780 euros I had to buy a jacket … “. A detail that, between serious and facetious, has made the moment even more surreal and affectionately melancholy, restoring the image of a man capable of making fun of himself, without ever losing his profound authenticity.
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