AMARCORD

Old people have always fascinated me. It took me a long time to get my neighbors to open their doors to me. Mistrust, fear or shyness... we're all apprehensive about revealing our inner selves. As if our objects might reveal too much about us, without our knowledge.

In Italy, the relationship to dialogue is not the same as in France: people talk to each other easily, in the street or on public transport. Here in Paris, you can live for years next door to complete strangers, without ever meeting.

It's always seemed to me that houses have a life, a soul?

A building is an incredibly rich microcosm. We all live in identical apartments, but behind our adjoining walls there are so many hidden stories and memories on the verge of disappearing...

Amarcord is Fellini's film about life in a provincial village. Amarcord, in dialect from Romagna, means ““mi ricordo”: “I remember”.