Ernesto

By: Amos Lassen

"ERNESTO"

Searching for Himself

Amos Lassen

Ernesto (Federico Russo) is a teenager who wanders, in search of himself, through the streets of Rome. As time passes, people just seem to disappear. He becomes involved in quick relationships that bring pain to himself and to others but he does find refuge in his happy moments and in political ideologies. He believes he can save his soul from suffering but life is not like that. to grow and move forward. Directed by Alice De Luca and Giacomo Raffaelli the film seems to give sense to the fragments of Ernesto's life.

This is a film about juvenile bewilderment, which reflects the crisis in thought in the world today. Relationships are the guiding line of the narrative, which, over the course of its chapters looks at Ernesto's encounters with various characters, each of whom are as important and necessary as the other. The city of Rome acts as a lifeline for a generation in need to finding and losing itself . The film's division into chapters allows the viewer to follow Ernesto's new habits, to leave behind the old ones and to show how we see the passing of time not in years, but in terms of the people we have loved, the mistakes we have made and the situations we have experienced.