Wishing on a Star

Inside a crumbling castle, situated in a quaint town not too far from the Venetian Lagoon, lives 63-year-old Luciana de Leoni d’Asparedo, a Neapolitan astrologer with a very special technique. For their wishes to come true, all Luciana’s clients need to do is take a special trip on their birthdays in order to be reborn under a new sky. By triangulating latitudes, longitudes, and ephemerides on maps, the destination is chosen by Luciana, whose role is partly that of an esoteric strategist and partly that of a travel agent. Veteran filmmaker and master of the hybrid form Péter Kerekes brilliantly combines the cinematic feel of a fiction film with cleverly captured real emotions from real people. (Dorota Lech, Toronto International Film Festival)