Sweet Dreams

Marco Bellochio walks through the last 40 years of Italian history, embodied in Massimo’s life. Massimo was left an orphan after the Superga tragedy, the accident that buried the most outstanding generation of legendary Torino Football Club players. The author of I pugni in tasca draws a sentimental map with universal meaning, recognizable by anyone who has felt the pain of loss as something personal. The search for the antidote to absence will take us to the rooms of the Louvre Museum, following the shadow of and it will have as its soundtrack songs by Patty Bravo or Raffaella Carra on a Sunday afternoon in front of the back and white TV. Icons, in short of a lost childhood, with half whispered secrets. In his adaptation of Massimo Gramellini’s best seller, based on his own life, Bellochio reinstates his name as one of the most remarkable European filmmakers of the last half century.