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PATRICK MARRON BALL
PIETRO CASTELLITTO

in contact with. The other, like Eva, And they said, Sometimes I can see overcome this obstacle during
Debora, even Massimiliano, Eva's Riccardo. It was very shocking and your production?
husband, or Eva's daughter and son, touching for them. They loved it. Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Well,
they all really loved it. They're really That's the most important thing. If one thing is that I changed completely
happy about it. They were in Venice they didn't like the movie, it would the style of the directing in terms
at the Venice Film Festival with me. have been a failure. not of the directing of the actors,
They came on set. They gave me a but in terms of how the camera was
lot of costumes. They gave me a lot The greatest challenge in this moving, because I wanted to be way
of canvas, the canvases that were film? more dynamic, because they were
painted that he would use us to Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: Well, crazy. And so I wanted to just follow
take pictures. They gave me... They whenever you face an ensemble movie them. And I was just hoping that it
had hundreds, and every time you with a lot of characters. It was five would have worked. Sometimes the
see a big, big, big painting on the main characters, 40 years of covering camera from them becomes their
wall, that's original. So they really 40 years of story. The main challenge point of view and it goes in details. So
participated. They gave me so many was for the movie at some point to I decided to shoot the movie all with
details. And in the end, what they blend in together and make sense. Steadicam, while the previous movie
saw was they were shocked because That was what I was mostly scared that I shot, it was all with a camera
they could really see a lot of what they about. on shoulder. So it was a big choice
actually lived. In real life, what I was for me. And the other thing, I think
happy about is that they all said that Something that you thought to there were some scenes that I was a
they were impressed with Riccardo yourself, this will be like a mission bit afraid of, for example, Eva's scene
Schicchi and Pietro's performance. impossible to do, and you and you on TV. I didn't know. I wrote it like

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