Gabriele Salvatores, Oscar-winning director, opened the sixteenth edition of the Ischia Film Festival. He met the public in an extraordinary evening receiving a lifetime achievement award, presented by the artistic directors Michelangelo Messina and Boris Sollazzo.
A career that began on the tables of the Teatro dell'Elfo, founded by him and which marked an extraordinary season of Milanese culture and beyond. "I would like to go back to those years, first of all because I would be young again and because it was an artistically free period. But on the other hand I don't like reunions, they usually end up being a disappointment, like that of Crosby, Still and Nash, and then because I have always preferred to look forward and not back.
At the end of August he will start shooting the new film: “It will be a road movie between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, the story of a strange family, with some unexpected fantastic twists, with Valeria Golino, Claudio Santamaria, Diego Abatantuono and an eighteen-year-old debutant who is the protagonist of the film. I like working with young people, I discovered it on the set of I'm Not Scared, they have no filters and are natural and spontaneous”. An old acquaintance is Diego Abatantuono, a friend with whom he has made many films. “Diego and I have a personal history that has always involved us, sometimes he makes me angry, because he is lazy and has often rested on his enormous talent. If he hadn't done so, he would have been one of the greatest Italian actors of all time”. Salvatores, on the other hand, has never stopped, he has always experimented, film after film, and still has some dreams in the drawer. “I would gladly make a film about a rock star, but even in that case I would like to do something special. I would like to take the first seventy pages of Life, Keith Richard’s biography, and have the film end when he meets another kid who likes to make music. Mick Jagger.”
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