My Dad is 100 Years Old

On the eve of the release of actress Isabella Rossellini's book -In the Name of the Father, the Daughter, and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini, the famous daughter of the acclaimed filmmaker teams with Canadian director Guy Maddin to pay loving homage to the man who crafted such ...more

Isabella Rossellini wrote the script for and narrates My Dad Is 100 Years Old as a personal letter to and defense of her father, famed Italian neorealist Roberto Rossellini. (The director died in 1977.) She also plays (in profile) prominent film titans in the director's life including Federico Fellini and Alfred Hitchcock, voicing their arguments for and against Roberto's film theories. This back and forth gives the film some intellectual stolidity to what could otherwise be an entirely personal ...more