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Overview
Opening Night
New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.) Film Festival
Celebrating its 34th edition in the United States
Organized by Viviana del Bianco, Mila Tenaglia and Matilde Castagnoli
Screening
Profondo Argento (Deep Argento)
(2023, Italy, 65 min.)
In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles
Directed by
Giancarlo Rolandi, Steve Della Casa
Written by
Steve Della Casa, Luca Pallanch, Giancarlo Rolandi
Starring
Dario Argento, Asia Argento, Daniele Luxardo, Donato Carrisi,
Jean-François Rauger, Guido Lombardo, Luciano Tovoli, Franco Bixio
Followed by a Q&A with:
Giancarlo Rolandi, director
Maurizio Tedesco, producer
Moderated by Leonardo Campaner, Ph.D. Candidate, NYU
In ENGLISH
About the Film:
Dario Argento, one of the most acclaimed Italian directors in the world, is a person who has always defended his private sphere. In interviews, he has always been very generous in talking about himself, offering interesting considerations on his films and even opening up about personal details, but always protecting his innermost thoughts. This documentary proceeds like a rhapsody, in which certain themes are privileged: his mother from the famous Luxardo family of photographers, his father a producer, his beginnings as a critic and screenwriter, his debut as a director, his relationship with music and architecture, his mentors, friends, and imitators, his tastes in literature and cinema, the evolution of genres and his career, his daughters Fiore and Asia. Finally his true dark side: comedy, which often surfaces in his daily life and even in his cinematic nightmares. Argento is the absolute protagonist: within the intimacy of his home, with the people he loves or appreciates, among the locations of his films, pursuing his dream of an ideal Argentian city. In this journey, he is accompanied by clips from his films, which re-emerge from the past to dialogue with the present. And unexpectedly, photos and documents emerge from his personal, jealously guarded archives. An Argento-tinted puzzle.