There’s a line where the characters say that they’re “attempting to resist life’s events”. Pietro Castellitto on Enea‘s Origins and CharactersĬongratulations for the Venice premiere of Enea! I loved the film. Enea is firmly rooted in the present, unfolding before us and inviting us to live in the moment with its protagonists: Enea and Valentino, but also the former’s parents Celeste (Sergio Castellitto) and Marina (Chiara Noschese), who have each developed strategies to handle their unhappiness on their own, his quietly rebellious brother Brenno (Cesare Castellitto), his girlfriend Eva (Benedetta Porcaroli), and Giordano (Adamo Dionisi), a disillusioned drug dealer with a heart of gold.Įnea had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and we spoke with writer-director-star Pietro Castellitto about, the origins and themes of the film, the Venice premiere, characters who “make up a war in order to really feel life,” and more. There’s an ever-present undercurrent of danger in Enea, as we are always aware of the things we aren’t shown, but there’s also a deep awareness of how transient life is, and how important it is to experience each moment. Instead, we are given key moments of their own lives and those of their family and friends - or, in Enea’s words, their “clan”: a bunch of people joined by a common purpose - as they strive to feel alive and find magic in the most ordinary moments.
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The two of them have a drug dealing business on the side, but the film, which the writer-director-star defines as a “gangster movie without the gansters,” isn’t concerned with showing us every detail of their criminal endeavours.
At its core, the Venice-premiering and Luca Guadagnino-produced Enea is a tragedy, but it’s also a snapshot of Rome (and of Italy as a whole) as a place of both violence and poetry, where chaos and irony combine to show us the contradictions that define the human experience, and the mechanisms we put in place to survive.Īt the centre of it all are the titular Enea (Pietro Castellitto), a young sushi restaurant owner from a bourgeois family, and his best friend Valentino, who’s recently become an aviator. And yet, it also feels like the characters we meet in the film - two lifelong friends who are determined to “resist life’s events” and “befriend rage” in a world that seems to be set against them - are already doomed. “I still have hope,” says Valentino (Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio), one of the protagonists of Pietro Castellitto’s Enea, in the very first line of the movie. We interview writer-director-star Pietro Castellitto on Enea, his Venice-premiering film about characters who “make up a war in order to feel life.”
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