Its overarching theme of how hard it is to make friends as an adult. I loved “Amanda” when I saw it at TIFF last year. And between “Amanda” and “Fremont,” a singular new cinematic voice has emerged.įor this month’s Female Filmmakers in Focus column, spoke to Cavalli over Zoom about the difficulty of making adult friends, feeling like you’re failing at life, the isolation of leaning on technology to connect with others, and her collaborations with Jalali. She realized she could combine her love of writing and her newfound love of the cinema-going experience into something uniquely her own. After moving from Milan to France to attend The American University of Paris to study Comparative Literature, she watched movies from all over the world and different eras in all the small theaters across the city. Fans of off-kilter, dry humor will find much to love in this delayed coming-of-age ode to the life-changing power of female friendship.Ĭavalli, who also co-wrote the similarly deadpan Sundance 2023 charmer “Fremont” with director Babak Jalali, came to cinema kind of late in life. After premiering last year at the Venice Film Festival and screening at the Toronto International Film Festival – the only Italian film to screen at both – writer/director Carolina Cavalli’s debut deadpan dramedy makes its way stateside later this month via Oscilloscope.
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