MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD, directed by Guy Maddin and written by and starring Isabella Rossellini, is at once whimsical and profoundly serious. It considers, among other things, Rossellini's father Roberto's troubled career and, in a very special, luminous moment, the relationship between her parents. Rossellini herself portrays all the major characters, including Frederico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, David O. Selznick, and, most poignantly, her own mother, Ingrid Bergman.
(Canada, 2005, 16 min.)
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS is Roberto Rossellini's delicate meditation on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, whom we follow from his immersion in religion to his attempts at melding spirituality with everyday life. Co-written with Federico Fellini, this gentle film is structured as a series of simple vignettes that serve to convey St. Francis' universal teachings.
(Italy, 1950, 90 min.)