Alicia Scherson : 2012
The Future
When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Bianca's universe is turned upside down. Staying alone in the family's Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold it together as her place in her surreal new world becomes blurry. Life is further complicated when Tomas's gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Bianca as a lure for a heist they've concocted, they convince her to initiate a sexual relationship with enigmatic blind hermit Maciste. But as the two spend time together, Bianca unexpectedly finds normalcy and acceptance in the ageing Italian actor's rococo mansion and begins her slow climb to maturity through a series of subtle shifts and revelations. Alicia Scherson's striking third feature uses the streets of Rome to create a world both richly beautiful and unapologetically provocative – the very aesthetic reflecting Bianca's disorientation as the future becomes her present. The film premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival 2013.
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