100 Seasons

Almost 50-year-old ex-ballet dancer Giovanni plans a major musical breakthrough in a deeply moving yet playful film about dreams, failure, bipolar disorder and love that can never die.

“It will never stop beating,” a young Giovanni says of his heart in a projection on the wall. His exuberant vitality marks a stark contrast to today’s Giovanni, who walks heavily through hospital corridors and on city sidewalks. At an intersection, he sees an advertisement for the love of his youth, director Louise Peterhoff’s upcoming production at Royal Dramatic Theatre. Time and space, memories and identities, youth and aging – everything is woven together in Giovanni Bucchieri’s boundary-crossing and tenderly narrated debut film where documentary images from youth form the foundation for the year’s most beautiful portrayal of love.

• Tobias Åkesson