film profile], which revisits a terrible news story in a dreamlike, cubist fashion, was at last released in Italian cinemas yesterday, 27 May, via I Wonder Pictures. We spoke with the director about his approach towards telling the particularly harrowing story of Fortuna Loffredo - a little girl who died after being thrown from the eighth floor of a block of flats on the outskirts of Naples - and bringing to light a horrendous pattern of child abuse.
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Cineuropa: Why did you set yourself the challenge of speaking about âthe unspeakableâ, as you yourself have described it, in your first feature film?