Italiano
C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills distributed by Notorius Pictures, will be released in Italian cinemas on Thursady April 7th, 2022.
The movie was presented at the 16th edition of the Rome Film Fest.
C‘MON C’MON
Director
Mike Mills
Nation
USA
Year
2021
Duration
108′
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix
Gaby Hoffmann
Woody Norman
Scoot McNairy
Molly Webster
Jaboukie Young-White
Johnny is a good-hearted yet emotionally blocked radio journalist on his latest story: traveling around the United States to interview children from the whole country and find out what they think of the world and the future. One day his sister Viv asks him to look after her eight-year-old son Jesse while she takes care of Jesse’s father, a man with mental health issues. Johnny agrees to spend time with the child, and somewhat unexpectedly, uncle and nephew form a close bond, full of tenderness, that will change them both, as they set off on an unforgettable road trip to Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans.
MIKE MILLS
Born in Berkeley in 1966, Mike Mills graduated from the Cooper Union in New York. He made his feature directorial debut in 2005 with Thumbsucker, which premiered at the Berlinale and won the Silver Bear. Mills’ next feature, Beginners, earned Christopher Plummer an Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor, while his 20th Century Women received an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Mills has directed music videos and designed album covers for artists such as Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, Yoko Ono, Pulp, and The National, in addition to producing The National’s most recent album, I Am Easy to Find.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
With C’mon C’mon, I wanted to play with opposing scales. On the one hand the film is about the smallest of moments: giving a kid a bath, talking before bedtime. On the other, you’re traveling to big cities, hearing young people think out loud about their futures and the world’s future, so the intimate story is happening in the context of a far larger one. I often feel this same spectrum with my kid: our time together is so private, yet the biggest concerns of life are all there. Johnny has to learn everything a parent learns but very, very fast. As a father, I’ve found that you feel you’re constantly a novice, trying to keep up as things shift, and this was a way of recreating that confusion, that always being not quite ready for what’s happening. I knew I wanted unscripted moments with real kids. Most interesting was just seeing how resiliently these kids approach the world.
