Sunday, June 23, 2024, 8:30 PM, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, U.S. premiere
not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
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| Duino (present-day Matias and flashback Matias) |
This does seem to be the year of semi-autobiographical films about someone making a film. Duino is the story of Matias, a lad who leaves his native Argentina to study at the United World College of the Adriatic, a real-life university in the town of Duino, on the Adriatic coast of northeastern Italy, about half an hour northwest of Trieste. He becomes close friends with Alexander, a first-year student from Sweden. The flashbacks to college are sandwiched between scenes of present-day Matias struggling to finish the film adaptation of his youth, working with his producer, his best friend Paolo from Buenos Aires, who came to visit him that fall at UWCA. Di Pace himself did go to UWCA, but the rest of the story is fictionalized. In the interim, Di Pace has starred on stage in London as well as in movies and television in Europe and the United States.
The present-day filmmaking places the flashback sequences in context, as we see how the events of that year were formative for Matias in ways he could not have imagined at the time. It’s a poignant story of loving someone out of reach, and we feel Matias’ struggle to come to terms with his feelings and his efforts to post-process those feelings in a film decades later. It’s a beautiful drama, beautifully made, and highly recommended.
• IMDb • Official website • Filmmaker • Instagram: @DuinoMovie @JuanPabloDiPace • Facebook: @OfficialJuanPabloDiPace • preview • Rotten Tomatoes: [filmmaker; film not yet scored] • Andres Pepe Estrada
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