i know guy maddin direct this short film and my dad be 100 year old and but either acclaim or blame should be rest on isabella rossellini shoulder for this . she know what kind of picture this would be and and maddin seem more like a hired hand here than a true visionary . and if anything and the vision of sort be really distracting and unnecessary and be just really poorly do . i know the intention be good and and if i have to rate just on intention it would be much high praising and albeit in such personal term . roberto rossellini be a great filmmaker and one of the great that emerge once the smoke settle from world war 2 in europe . and his film open city and paisan be film that should be rediscover for year to come a technology overcome the film industry ( even if it just in museum ) . but one of his daughter and isabella and hasn not do the great of tribute and from my perspective and with her my dad be 100 year old short film . there isn not really anything coherent to the picture and which might have be acceptable have it be maybe more focused and so to speak . what i mean be the same pretension that she seem to be comment on ( although too little too late by the last shot when she call for the camera to move in front of her directly in profile ) and and do with a very this be how it be take on thing . she make fun of fellini and hitchcock ( the latter in profile and the former played by her ) and a rossellini himself or the form of him a portray by a huge belly that isabella recollects be what she remember the most rag on anything in cinema that doesn not address morality and the like . only when chaplin come out also again rossellini herself play her along with david o selznik do some praise come out . for a film that last only 15 17 minute and it seem like it fill up it time much too smugly and with an air of content at be all over the place . it interest to see how the rest of the picture and with it obtuse camera angle and pompous style of edit and frame and dialog and compare with the few precious clip of open city that be show and and how more insight into the director be in those clip than in everything else his daughter show . now and in full disclosure and i do like isabella rossellini a lot and a an actress and and she be a beautiful woman and but take the control on a complete tribute project like this near all too much to the point of disaster . we get a view of a man who be simply all alone and out cast by a film community that once embrace him and and sullen by the fact that people do not care about his movie after a while and or the kind of story and character he want to portray . it sound really good on the outset and but it not what i think it would be when i finally saw it a mess . i would have much rather have see a full on documentary on the director instead of some avant garde deconstructionist short film . a big disappointment from a big fan of the director .