The Oscar-winning director faces an autobiographical portrait of himself (as the interviewee confessed) and speaks on the one hand about the efforts of a famous director who falls into depression from the passage of time in black and white.

If we think about it, at the basis of cinema there is precisely this unavoidable parameter for human beings with i 24 frames per second that have been animating the frames of motion picture film since its inception!

On the other hand, it speaks of the decadence of another great figure in the collective imagination told in colour: Casanova borrowing and freely drawing inspiration from the homonymous novel..

The couple Servillo and Bentivoglio, the first in the role of the director and the second in those of Casanova compete for the podium on the subject of the passage of time. On the one hand, the non-acceptance, on the other the awareness of one's own limits. As mentioned, the real part was shot in black and white and the part of the director's film in color, the spectator finds himself dealing with a film within a film without being disturbed by it thanks to the choice of visual language.

The director corroded by his idiosyncrasies has only one friend left: the historic editor of a lifetime who is also a tribute to this figure so important in the making of cinema by Salvatores.

However Bernardi is not grateful to his friend and broods over the success achieved with the critics by a young emerging director who in his debut is also invited to the Venice Film Festival.

But something has to happen to break the vicious cycle of this aging director spoiled through and through.

Love at first sight for a young girl (the very good Sara Serraiocco) who deals with agriculture destabilizes him and what should be the search for possession of yet another female becomes a love obsession.

Here is Bernardi's second point of contact with Casanova always looking for new conquests even at the cost of a duel!

Two parallel lives lived at different times that represent the universality of the human soul.

Between duels to the death with the suitor of the young girl adored by Casanova and between the domestic technologies of the spoiled director who rebel against his depression, Salvatores shows us how he is capable of getting to the bottom of the human soul and perhaps for this reason he is so loved because he can to make the viewer mirror in the story.

Presented at the Bari Bifestival, the director received a welcome and also recognition from the Apulian event.