Grandmother's Footsteps

Expecting her first child and questioning how to align motherhood with being an artist, Lola Peploe begins a dialogue with her grandmother Cloclo, a landscape painter, aesthetic nomad and free spirit. Lola decides to follow in her footsteps and return to Greece to the Cycladic islands where Cloclo spent the last twenty years of her life painting. She begins speaking to Cloclo in her mind and reconstructing her life as she wanders through the streets of Amorgos in search of her old painting studio. Filled with extraordinary characters, overwhelming epistolary loves and surprisingly beautiful paintings, the film includes one of the last testimonies by Bernardo Bertolucci, the director's uncle.

Duration: 64'
Production year: 2023
Country: FR
Language: EN, IT, FR Subtitles: PT

Rome Film Festival – Freestyle Section

Lola Peploe

Actress and director Lola Peploe was born in England and studied English and French literature at Oxford University. From there she went to the prestigious Drama Centre London to study theatre. As an actress, she has worked in theatre, television and film. She appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), where she was also a production assistant, and in 2006 she played a role in Stephen Frear's award-winning film The Queen. She also had a leading role in Gregorio Graziosi's film Obra (2014). Her first work as a director, the short film No. 27 (2015), was selected for the São Paulo International Short Film Festival and was screened in the Discoveries Section of LEFFEST'16. Grandomother’s Footsteps (2023) is her first feature length film.

Original title: Grandmother's Footsteps

Lola Peploe

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