The Blunder of Love

A young man meets a young woman and both fall for each other. A house is built, children are born, the fairy tale story of boundless love takes its course. A grand- son sets out to
explore the myth of his grandparents’
romance and tries to honour his deceased grandfather on film, assisted by all the
surviving relatives. Not an easy undertaking when things may not have been exactly as the family tradition would have it ...
In his search Rocco Di Mento unearths old 8mm home movies, an unpublished novel,
various love letters and a whole host of long-sup- pressed feelings. It’s hardly surprising that this mixture begins to develop a dynamic of its own. Suddenly the issue is no longer only the search for the love of one’s life but also the questions of what holds people together above and beyond their relationship status and degree of kinship and how
forgiveness is possible even though you have long since lost faith in it. An ingeniously
constructed family constellation full of Italian temper- ament, in which tension, emotion and truthfulness are inextricably linked. Because: "Even if you leave you will always be part of your family.”
Luc-Carolin Ziemann (Dok-Leipzig)