Um recipiente para histórias, entre cinema e realidade, memórias do passado, sonhos e viagens em uma viagem ao redor do mundo em onze dias. Piazza Grande, a localização simbólica incontestável para o Festival de Locarno. Histórias vividas em primeira mão por aqueles que freqüentam, habitam e experimentam a Piazza Grande durante o período do Festival. As emoções sentiram por um momento, tão eéreo como o próprio cinema: esta é a mágica flamboyante e misteriosa que se perpetua todos os anos neste lugar extraordinário.
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.
In this documentary, a variety of directors and actors, many of them well known, give answers to questions the viewer never hears -- answers which, on the face of it, call into question the validity of the whole filmmaking enterprise and the culture which spawned it. The narration asserts that the theme is "art versus enterprise," but critics objected that the film is not sufficiently focused to back up that claim. It does, however, reveal a strong anti-Hollywood bias.
