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Alpine Climate Doc ‘Flower of Mine,’ Directed by ‘Eight Mountains’ Novelist, Set to Pre-Open Locarno
Alpine climate doc 'Flower of Mine,' directed by 'Eight Mountains' novelist Paolo Cognetti, will pre-open the Locarno Film Festival.
Besides writing “Eight Mountains,” Cognetti was also “on set” when Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch shot the film adaptation of his book, which won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2022. Cognetti was moved to make the doc when a drought during the summer of 2022 caused the spring near his home in Estoul — a small village located 1,700 meters above sea level overlooking the Brusson Alpine valley — to dry up. Similarly, “Flower of Mine” continuously changes points of view in “describing the [mountain] life that flows at various levels,” according to promotional materials.
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