On the occasion of the release on March 12 of Il Quieto Vivere, presented as a Special Event Out of Competition at the Giornate degli Autori of the last Venice Exhibition, we interviewed his author Gianluca Matarrese.
The film takes its cue from a real story – the “domestic fad” within the director’s family, among the sister-in-law Luisa and Imma, in the context of a small Calabrian village – and reworks it in the form of tragicommedia, moving between documentary, fiction and theater. “There is no evil worse than a divided family.” Starting from the quote in Sofocle, Matarrese adds a new chapter to his family self-narration and makes a film halfway between writing and improvisation.
The director, born in Piedmont, but with Calabrian origins, is at his ninth feature film, after the success of the previous GEN . His filmography is divided between documentaries (Fuori tutto (2019) won the Best Italian Documentary Award at the Torino Film Festival while La Dernière Séance (2021) won the Queer Lion at the International Film Festival) and fiction (L’Expérience Zola (2023)). With him we talked about the relationship with the actors, who in this case are familiar, of the construction of the set and of what he defines his “ reality cinema”, of the collaboration with the editor Jacopo Quadri and the solitude of the adults in the times of social.
The article The quiet living. Interview with Gianluca Matarrese comes from SentieriSelvaggi.
