23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

My Dad is 100 Years Old

Country: Canada

Year: 2005

Duration: 16'

"I wrote the script and illustrated some of my 'fantasies.' Guy guided me while writing and came up with wonderful ideas including the craziest one: that I was to play all characters. I would have thought that to be too pretentious of me, but Guy explained it was the simplest way to show that this is the way I perceived and remembered Selznick, Fellini, Hitchcock and Chaplin, my Mom and Anna Magnani. […] Step by step, with Jody and Guy by my side, my fantasy world was formed: from script, to shooting, to editing, to the final fifteen-minutelong love letter to my Dad." (I. Rossellini)

"As a storyteller she is sometimes an awestruck little girl, sometimes a regal serenity, sometimes a bawdy beauty with a hair-trigger laugh and a taste for Grand Guignol. She's always frank and practical, vulnerable and perceptive, refreshingly morbid and jaw-droppingly surprising. I felt my only job as director was to get this complicated recipe that is Isabella onto the screen." (G. Maddin)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin (Winnpeg, Canada, 1956) has been working for years as a director, screenwriter and video artist, bringing to the screen and into his installations his passion/obsession for the cinema of the past, whose atmosphere and clichés he tries to recreate in a playful and provocative manner. He has made over forty shorts, which have won prizes at festivals throughout the world (including My Dad Is 100 Years Old, which he presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2005), and has directed much-appreciated feature films, including Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Keyhole (2011) and the documentary My Winnipeg (2007).

FILMOGRAFIA

Careful (cm, 1992), The Pomps of Satan (cm, 1993), Sea Beggars (cm, 1994), Imperial Orgies (cm, 1996), Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (cm, 1997), The Hoyden (cm, 1998), The Heart of the World (cm, 2000), Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002), Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (tv, 2002), Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), The Saddest Music in the World (La canzone più triste del mondo, 2003), A Trip to the Orphanage (cm, 2004), Sombra Dolorosa (cm, 2004), My Dad Is 100 Years Old (cm, 2005), My Winnipeg (doc., 2007), Keyhole (2011).