Charades has acquired the international sales rights for “Il tempo che ci vuole” (The Time It Takes), directed by Francesca Comencini. The film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition section.
The Time It Takes is set to hit Italian cinemas from September 26 to September 1.
The film revolves around a devoted father who works in the film industry, and his strong bond with his young daughter. Together, they discover the magical world of childhood through the eyes of his daughter and the “Pinocchio” set he is working on, “where chaos meets fantasy.”
The little girl turns into a young woman, and the mystery that prevailed in the relationship between father and daughter disappears. She realizes that her childhood is fading away, to be replaced by adolescence. The girl begins to take drugs while hiding the truth from her father. The father refuses to ignore the situation, and confronts his daughter and decides to take her to Paris in a last attempt to save their relationship and restore it to normal.
The Time It Takes pays tribute to the director's father, Luigi Comencini – the Italian master who made the Oscar-nominated Italian classic Bread, Love and Dreams, with Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio De Sica.
In a statement, Francesca Comencini said: “This film is a very personal story about moments with my father that came from memories and have remained alive and intact in my mind. It is a personal story that I believe finds the right distance in the fact that between father and daughter there is always cinema as a passion, a life choice and a way of being in the world. Everywhere, years of political murders, social revolutions and the emergence of drugs, which turned the life of an entire generation upside down.”
The film is produced by Marco Bellocchio and Simone Gattoni of Kavak and Sylvie Pialat of Les Films du Worso. Starring Fabrizio Giffoni and Romana Maggiora Vergano.
During the festival, the film's production designer, Paola Comencini – the director's sister – will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award, dedicated to film industry figures who, together with the director, contribute to the achievement of excellence in the creation of cinematic art.
The Venice statement described The Time It Takes as “a film in which the set design is not only a creative and meticulous work, but also an incredible emotional journey.”
The award ceremony for Paola Comencini will take place on Friday at the Palais du Cinéma at 9.30 p.m., before the screening of the film “The Time It Takes.”
