L'orto americano
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary's elderly mother's house, separated by a grim garden.
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"Pupi Avati's The American Backyard is a far more intricate film than it first appears. On the surface, it presents itself as an open tribute to 1940s American cinema and its evocative atmospheres-an era the 86 year old director absorbed in his youth. Then, there is the apparent storyline: a search for the culprit behind a series of murders, piecing together a mosaic of clues. But beyond that, lingering in the background, is something more elusive-a story of obsession, only vaguely evoked yet left for the audience to complete. An obsession that binds the narrator and the killer in ways ..."
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The house in Davenport the protagonist lives in for a house exchange actually belongs to Pupi Avati and to his brother Antonio. It used to be the house of Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz trumper player Avati dedicated his 1991 movie "Bix" to.
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A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year later, he moves to the American Midwest to write his novel, next to the auxiliary's elderly mother's house, separated by a grim garden.