QUASI A CASA

Carolina Pavone (assistant director on Nanni Moretti’s latest hits) makes her directorial and screenwriting debut with this film in which a young aspiring musician meets the French singer who she hopelessly fangirls, and begins an intense love-hate relationship with her. One seeks a role model and the other (self-)destruction; their ambitions and disappointments define this multi-stage generational clash – veneration, seduction and denial of the myth – peppered with personal crises. A delightfully ambiguous film with personality and audacity, mirroring the style of filmmakers like Hansen-Løve or Assayas, which refrains from delivering moral lessons and instead relies on the chemistry between debutant Maria Chiara Arrighini and the magnetic Lou Doillon. And on the music, naturally (Coca Puma, C. Tangana, Cerrone) – perhaps the only thing that never disappoints.