Hamptons Film: ‘For Consideration: Io Capitano’ / Discussions / Opens in Theaters Only, February 23rd

Winner — Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award for Best Director

Winner — Venice Film Festival Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Talent, Seydou Sarr 

Winner — San Sebastian International Film Festival Audience Award for Best European Film

Nominee — Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language

Nominee — European Film Awards European Director

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“A grand, honestly felt emotional sweep. . . Garrone’s most robust, purely satisfying filmmaking since his international breakthrough with Gomorrah 15 years ago.”

— Variety

 

IndieWire Critic’s Pick

“Matteo Garrone’s stunning film puts a human face on the migrant crisis.”

—IndieWire

 

“Emotionally searing but ultimately uplifting.”

— The Hollywood Reporter

 

“Anchored by a powerful performance by first-time actor Seydou Sarr.”

—Screen Daily

A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. 

“When I saw this film, ‘Io Capitano,’ I thought my father would’ve loved this film. My father is the director Roberto Rossellini. With Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti, they started a new movement in the cinema called Neorealism…Their film was not entertainment. It wasn’t fantasy. But they saw that cinema can be used for knowledge. And since it has the magic to make us live other realities, then to live other realities. I see that in your film, and especially in Matteo Garrone, who is very much a Rossellini son, a brother to me.” — Isabella Rossellini 

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