Seydou's journey continues. The story of the young protagonist of the journey of fortune from Senegal to Italy, narrated by Matteo Garrone in "Io Capitano”, will also reach Hollywood from Europe, because "Io Capitano" has entered the final five of the foreign language films in nomination for the film Oscars, which will take place on March 10 in Los Angeles. A prestigious award that the Roman director's film, which has already won the Silver Lion in Venice and was nominated for the Academy Awards (where, however, it ultimately received no awards), will compete for with "Perfect Days" (shot by German Wim Wenders, but produced in Japan), "Society of the Snow" (Spanish, but set in the Chilean Andes), "The Teachers' Lounge" by German Ilker Çatak and "The Zone of Interest" by Englishman Jonathan Glazer. "Io Capitano" tells the adventurous journey of two young men, Seydou precisely and his fraternal friend Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. It is a contemporary odyssey through the pitfalls of the desert, the horrors of detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea, all shown with a lucid, sometimes dreamlike eye and photography, capable of lingering just enough on the rougher scenes: after all, “Io Capitano” is not a documentary, not a film of denunciation by the author's own admission, but entertainment, albeit committed.
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