At the Locarno Festival, Julie Pacino, like a female version of David Lynch

For a moment, we thought that David Lynch, who died on January 16 at the age of 78 , had returned. Leafing through the thick catalog of the Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland), which takes place from August 6 to 16, we stopped at the script of a first feature film, summarized thus: "A woman stays in an isolated motel where time is distorted, memories haunt the corridors and reality is disintegrated." We discover the title, I Live Here Now , then the name of the filmmaker, Julie Pacino, who, let's admit it, meant nothing to us. The young woman, born in 1989, is the daughter of the legendary American actor Al Pacino, and Jan Tarrant, a theater coach.

We couldn't resist meeting her after watching her hallucinatory film, which still preserves its share of mystery. Presented in the Fuori Concorso (non-competitive) section, Based on different aesthetics, I Live Here Now takes the viewer into the subconscious of a Hollywood actress named Rose (Lucy Fry), whose flashing blue eyes seem to be calling for help. The young woman learns that she is pregnant by her boyfriend (Matt Rife), while she is convinced that she is sterile, having undergone an operation in her childhood.

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