“This Film Is About Relying on Sheer Emotion”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With ‘Sanremo’ Director Miroslav Mandic

How does a filmmaker meet the challenges of depicting and dramatizing the complex and emotionally wrought condition of dementia? Slovenia-based, Bosnia-born writer-director Miroslav Mandić  answered the challenge with Sanremo, which focuses on an elderly man named Bruno (Sandi Pavlin) living in a home for the elderly. Despite his increasing dementia, Bruno is capable of love and […]