Never to early to prognosticate on film festival line-up predictions that are still a good seven months away. One filmmaker who has been endorsed by the festival a couple of years back with his melodrama, I’ve Loved You So Long, is currently filming his sophomore feature. Formerly known as “Silence of Love”, Philippe Claudel’s Tous les Soleils (“All the Suns”) is being labeled as an Italian comedy (here is some footage) set in the multi-linguistic city of Strasbourg – a place the filmmaker appears to appreciate for it’s cultural Euro- diversity.
Starring a mix of French and Italian factors Stefano Accorsi, Neri Marcore, Clothilde Courau, Anouk Aimée, scripted by the director, the film centres on Alessandro, an Italian man who teaches baroque music and lives in Strasbourg with his 15-year-old, crisis-stricken daughter Irina, and his brother Crampone, a harmless anarchist lunatic who hasn’t stopped applying for political refugee status since Berlusconi came to power. Sometimes, Alessandro feels like he has two teenagers to raise, while he doesn’t even realise he is himself powerless to cope with life. Trying to be a model father, he has forgotten in the process to rebuild his love life, all the more so as he is surrounded by a group of friends whose farcical capers prevent him from feeling alone. But as his daughter discovers the first flutters of love, unexpectedly, Alessandro’s world is turned upside down.
Here’s more on the genesis of the project, from Claudel himself. Here’s our interview with the filmmaker for I’ve Loved you So Long.
