The Blunder of Love

Costantino flooded his wife with love letters, sent films of his travels, and even wrote a romance novel about her. His grandson, Rocco di Mento, knows him only through stories, and so seventy years later he travels from Berlin back to his native Italy to learn more about his grandfather. However, as family reunions bring disturbed interpersonal relationships to the surface, Rocco witnesses the distancing, resentment and frustration of unrequited feelings passed down across generations. His introspective and subtly nostalgic film deconstructs the myth of great love and asks what the force that holds people together is. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)