Le Louxor cinema invites you to the screening of the film America by Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese, in his presence. The film, in the running for the César for best doc 2022, mixes the archive, the essay, the investigation, in which a young man (the director) follows in the footsteps of his grandfather who left, in the years 60, Italy for the United States
Giacomo Abbruzzese leaves for the United States after his grandmother confides in him that his grandfather was not the victim of a car accident, as it was said, but was killed in Harlem, in the 1970s A magnificent documentary, between essay, investigation and family film.
“Last summer, my grandmother told me for the first time that my grandfather had not died in a car accident in New York, as I had always believed. He had been murdered in Harlem in the seventies. The documentary, combining the form of an essay film and family cinema, emerges from my research trip to New York and my investigation into his death. (GA)
« Who has never dreamed of discovering an uncle from America? Giacomo Abbruzzese has his own, but it will arrive later, at the end of the film, with its share of revelations. (…) His grandfather died in New York, a long time ago, in unknown circumstances. The filmmaker wants to understand why and takes us on his journey. A free and engaging story that surfs on the B side of the American and slips into the interstices of our contradictions. Pauline David, programmer, director of the En ville! (Brussels)
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