Umberto Eco’s private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 rare and antique volumes. The director had worked with Eco one year before the writer’s death on a video project for the Venice Art Biennale in 2015, gaining access to the library. With the help of Eco’s family he has now produced a documentary that describes a one-of-a-kind place, but also tries to catch and represent the universal idea of a library as “memory of the world”, as Eco himself liked to describe it.
Exploring fictional worlds with Eco for a guide remains a diverting and often enlightening pursuit.
New York Times
The film becomes a timely epistemological rumination on the difference between knowledge and information, the relationship between memory and technology.
Slant Magazine
| Series | |
| Genre |
Documentary
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| Runtime | 80 minutes |
| Rated | N/A |
| Directed By | Davide Ferrario |
| Starring | Giuseppe Cederna, Carlotta Eco, Emanuele Eco |
| Language | Italian With English Subtitles |
| Country |
Italy
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