By Valerio Viale

Why am I comparing up-and-coming, Italian-American filmmaker, Laurence Vannicelli to Federico Fellini, the most celebrated Italian auteur of all times? Well, because the source of inspiration for Laurence's upcoming film, La Certa - set in the surroundings of L'Aquila, in Abruzzo region of Italy – is the same as Federico's. That is to say, his dreams.

In fact, Vannicelli has experienced a recurring, nighttime journey across the depths of his psyche, that sparked the concept for his surreal romance set in the Italian countryside, where his grandparents were born. As far as Fellini's creative process, for almost thirty years of his life, every morning as he woke up, the filmmaker jot down and illustrated - both artfully and humorously - his dreams, eventually filling up two notebooks.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano