Interview 3 - 3 Questions to Armando Ceste
by Vittorio Sclaverani - NISI MASA
How did Amoremorte come about?
During the shooting of my last film Porca miseria!, I was travelling amongst the poor and the homeless. An aspect which struck me was how this world is excluded from the emotional sphere. Like one day when an old tramp told me a beautiful love story: I didn’t know if it was real or imagined under the alcohol fumes.
You have found a new face for your film, Egi Volterrani.
He is also the author of the subject. It is a sort of spiritual testament about the meaning of life in western society where all we need to do is consume and produce and where death is forgotten.
Which director did you think of most whilst working on Amoremorte?
From a linguistic point of view, David Lynch, but as in my previous films, above all Carl Theodor Dreyer through the image of the martyr in The Passion of Joan of Arc - even if this interfered only on a background level.
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