NOIAFT correspondent Giò Crisafulli interviews writer-director Valerio Mieli at Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films.
Nine years after his debut feature, Ten Winters, played in Open Roads, Valerio Mieli returns with an evocative romance about an unnamed, archetypal couple (Luca Marinelli and Linda Caridi) wrestling with the passage of time. When they move into the house where Marinelli’s character spent his childhood summers, the past resurfaces in sensory bursts and exerts a profound hold on him; meanwhile, she struggles to overcome his anxieties about the inevitability of change. Remember? is an earthy meditation on love that’s pushed and pulled by the tidal waves of memory.
Giò Crisafulli is a producer, writer, director, editor, and actor. He has produced, written, directed, and edited a handful of shorts and one feature for Zio Ciccio Cinema. He has a Bachelor Degree in Communication and International Studies from Marymount Manhattan College, and graduated the two-year training program at the William Esper Studio in the study of the Meisner technique. He has acted in a number of television movies and commercials for Japanese production company Fujisankei, was in “Blizhniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter” starring David Carradine and Eric Roberts, and played real New York Mets second baseman Felix Millian in the television movie, “Mitch Albom’s For One More Day”. He was an honorary member of the African Women’s Repertory Theater where he performed in dozens of original plays, and was a member of the Michael Chekhov Theater Company performing in numerous productions of the works of Sam Shepard and John Patrick Shanley.
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