“For me, it was very natural; it’s a story of women,” says director Carolina Cavalli of her debut feature, which centres on a young misfit adrift in Turin
“Sometimes I have this feeling that when I go to watch a film, I kind of have a date with the director,” says Italian filmmaker, centres on a young misfit adrift in Turin,Dressed like a cross between MTV’s Daria and a Catholic schoolgirl, with no overlay of self-consciousness, Amanda is like a three-dimensional animé creation – an alien in modern life.
It would be easy to pathologise Amanda or demand that she check her privilege, but the discourse doesn’t seem to have reached her and she would argue that she’s fine. “I felt there was a bit of a children’s book heroine in her, like Pippi Longstocking,” says Cavalli. “I was wondering about [such characters]: how are they going to be when they grow up? And it was sad to imagine that they would change completely, become different,” says Cavalli.
. Compared to her peers, though, she came to auteur cinema relatively late. “I watched a lot of TV and pop culture and films that are maybe considered B movies,” Cavalli says of her teenage years, imbibing a stream of stock characters that were ripe for twisting. “I wasn’t choosing, I was just watching whatever was on, the way TV used to work. And then when I was a bit older, at university, I started to have preferences about auteurs.
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