Magari

If Only

Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, the children of divorced parents, arrive in Rome from Paris on a visit to their father. During a holiday, the family’s tensions come to the surface. A trip back into childhood and the gilded atmosphere of the 1980s, seen through the eyes of three siblings clinging to the desire to feel like a family. Touching on dreams and responsibilities, Elkann directs her fine cast in a film that is gently but intensely moving, like a childhood memory. A self-aware and sincere debut, caressed by the grace of an approach that retains the enchanted but ferocious innocence of children. (Daniela Persico, Locarno Festival)

Director's Biography
Ginevra Elkann: Ginevra Elkann chairs Asmara Films and Good Films. She was assistant to director Bernardo Bertolucci on "Besieged" (1998). With Asmara Films she produced Babak Jalali’s 2009 "Frontier Blues", presented in Concorso at Locarno and, in 2013, "White Shadow" by Noaz Deshe. "If Only" is her debut feature and was the opening film of Locarno Festival 2019. Film Selection: Magari (If Only, 2019) - Vado a messa (2005, short)
European Panorama Fiction 2020
Ginevra Elkann
Italy / France 2019
color
100 minutes
Italian / French / English
OV with German subtitles
Screenplay Chiara Barzini, Ginevra Elkann
Cinematography Vladan Radovic
Editing Desideria Rayner
Music Riccardo Sinigallia
With Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher, Milo Roussel, Ettore Giustiniani, Oro De Commarque, Céline Sallette, Brett Gelman, Benjamin Baroche
Producer(s) Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Paul-Dominique Vacharisinthu
Production
Wildside, Rai Cinema, Tribus P Films, Iconoclast
World Sales
Rai Com
Trailer
Austrian Premiere
Austrian Rights
Filmladen
World Premiere
Locarno Festival 2019
Austrian Rights
Filmladen

Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere

Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Locarno Festival 2019