Alessandro Michele
Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with a friend who offers encouragement. As the dancers warmup and get into costume, she performs on the stage where she encounters faces both fresh and familiar. A group warmup exercise takes an elemental turn.
In this first episode of the seven-part film collaboration between award-winning director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Private Idaho, Elephant) and Alessandro Michele, Gucci Creative Director, we follow the lead Silvia during her eccentric morning routine on Roma, which includes a scene in which, to the rhythm of a Billie Eilish song, she throws a dress from the balcony (from the first Gucci show by Alessandro Michele, from the Fall Winter 2015 women's line). Silvia is seen going through the mail, which includes colorful Gucci show invitations as well as a mysterious brochure, and then is distracted by a television talk by writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado until an unexpected visitor arrives. At the same time, in another room, a music group rehearses a song that Kim Gordon wrote for this miniseries.
On an errand to the post office to send a postacard, Silvia's day continues to unfurl in unanticipated directions. Idly eavesdropping on conversations in the line of unusually well-dressed customers, she begins to focus intently on the participants of an intriguing phone call, including an elegant gentleman, in an artful blurring of the boundaries between reality and reverie.
We return to the apartment where the day began, but this time meet characters in the homes surrounding, gaining a voyeuristic view into their lives, fantasies and unguarded private moments. These vignettes captured through the frames of the windows ultimately combine into a reversal of perspective, as Silvia once more takes centre stage.
Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with a friend who offers encouragement. As the dancers warmup and get into costume, she performs on the stage where she encounters faces both fresh and familiar. A group warmup exercise takes an elemental turn.
On an errand to the post office to send a postacard, Silvia's day continues to unfurl in unanticipated directions. Idly eavesdropping on conversations in the line of unusually well-dressed customers, she begins to focus intently on the participants of an intriguing phone call, including an elegant gentleman, in an artful blurring of the boundaries between reality and reverie.
In this second episode directed by Gus Van Sant and Alessandro Michele, we follow Silvia to the neighborhood café, where she meets a friend, played by Arlo Parks, the musician and poet from London. They have a meandering conversation until realising they are surrounded by others in a variety of surreal situations. Silvia’s companion leaves to head off on a sightseeing trip around Rome in a car with some friends. The return of the mysterious flyer sets in motion a journey inside a world where all is not as it seems.
