![]() ![]() GUADAGNINO: You don’t need to live in the physical place to be inhabited by it. Have you ever thought of following in Ferragamo’s footsteps and spending a substantial period of time there? That said, I have liked movies about fashion such as Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent or even Robert Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter, which I know was destroyed by the critics when it came out.ĭEADLINE: Hollywood is perhaps the ultimate land of mythmaking and of manufacturing desire. Like cinema itself, or like Hollywood, fashion sells dreams and sells an artificial idea of self, and it’s better to explore and understand the mechanism behind it, rather than create a fiction of it. I feel like fashion is almost unfilmable. ![]() These combine to make him a very powerful figure in Italy’s 20 th Century history.ĭEADLINE: With that in mind, did you ever think of making this as a narrative feature? So, everything is about artificiality, about a system of ideas, and everything is about a great strategy. He went to Florence because it was, in his imagination, about selling the dream of Italy to his clients. He went to Florence not because he was from Florence or because Florence was specific to shoemaking. He was there for the creation of the star system and he helped create it: the boots of Valentino, the shoes of Mary Pickford, and so on and so on.Īnd then he left America and went back to Italy, not because he was missing Italy, I suspect, but because he knew that he had to create a fantastic idea of ‘self’ in order to expand his own name and business. So, for example, he goes to California and participates in the creation of Hollywood. What he creates are all the fruits of his own personal talent and vision. His heritage is not in any way linked to his creations. The combination of naïveté, risk taking, adventure, knowledge, independence and determination was fascinating.Įxploring the identity of someone so gifted was a way to illustrate the unpredictability of talent and its origin. ![]() GUADAGNINO: It’s almost as though he were an adult when he was very young. ![]() The amount of hard work, ambition and vision he displayed was incredible… These, for me, are qualities that are always very interesting in people, and combining that with the historical period in which he grew up, it felt like a super compelling subject to tackle.ĭEADLINE: Ferragamo’s rags to riches story is a remarkable one. I read his biography, and did more research, and I learned that Salvatore Ferragamo was a perfect example of a genius, someone who was ahead of everybody and everything, and he could see a path into the future. It’s not a secret that I am interested in fashion. LUCA GUADAGNINO: Well, I knew Salvatore’s story already because of my interest in the incredible formal quality of his shoes. Sierra handles sales.īelow is our wide-ranging chat with Guadagnino about the film, how it fits into his ‘cinema of desire’ oeuvre and why he felt strongly about attending this year’s Venice Film Festival.ĭEADLINE: Why did you want to tell this story? Sony Classics snapped the movie up this week. Producers are Francesco Melzi d’Eril and Gabriele Moratti of MeMo Films, with executive producer Stella Savino. Chris Pine Clears The Air On Whether Harry Styles Spit On Him At The Venice Film Festival ![]()
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