To the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, “fairy tale” is an often misunderstood concept. For many, it suggests kings and queens, a light kind of fantasy.
But Rohrwacher is devoted to — “obsessed with” she says — the tradition of Italian fairy and folk tales, which tend to feature peasants, animals and “doors between reality and magic that never close." They have deeply informed and enriched Rohrwacher's lyrical, ramshackle and wonder-filled films.
