{"id":1691,"date":"2014-09-29T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:04:36","slug":"an-academy-nominated-film-with-a-calvino-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"An Academy-nominated film with a Calvino inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2011 film La Luna<\/em> was created, written, and directed by Enrico Casarosa; it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film. The Genovese film artist said he had a number of inspirations for the film, including the bickering between his father and grandfather as he was growing up by the sea. However, he said, “The last … inspiration is Italo Calvino. He\u2019s an Italian writer that we read growing up. It\u2019s very surreal work and he had one story with a ladder to the moon, and in that story, specifically, they were, I think, getting milk from the moon. It got me thinking, wouldn\u2019t it be fun to kinda come up with my own strange child-like myth of what someone could be?”<\/p>\n

His story deviates a great deal from the opening story in Calvino’s “The Distance of the Moon,” but we hope it will put you in the right frame of mind \u2013 at least a bit \u2013 for Calvino’s classic.<\/p>\n