Luca Guadagnino on Directing 'Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams' and Having Martin Scorsese In the Documentary

In 2020, Bones and All filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s documentary Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Ahead of the documentary’s release this year with Sony Pictures Classics, Guadagnino sat down to talk with Collider’s editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub. In no time at all, it’s made clear the director’s passion for Salvatore Ferragamo, the 20th-century cobbler-turned-luxury-shoemaker who began his art at the mind-boggling age of 12.

I know people want to make projects with you, but if you could get the financing to make anything you want, what would you make and why? GUADAGNINO: Well, I would like to make, if I could, movies in which I have complete control on the story, on the characters, on the production, on the cut. And I do not believe that there are things that cannot be said. I think that it's how you say it. But the point being that if someone who has the power to make me do a movie like that would allow me to have that kind of control, then I would consider it very surely. You have something behind you. Love it. Yeah.

GUADAGNINO: Somehow, because I'd been working for this short film - fashion film - and I'd been shooting in Florence, and I remember I was staying in a hotel that was owned by the family Ferragamo while we were shooting. And there was, in the rooms in the hotel, this book called Shoemaker of Dreams. And I was curious about it, and I got a copy. And I remember we were shooting the short film in Florence, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, and we were really doing it in five days.

GUADAGNINO: Well, my idea to invite Marty to be in the movie was because he is such a great expert and has this incredible literate quality about the history of Hollywood. And because the history of Hollywood is crossed over by the experience of Ferragamo in that system, we felt it was a great idea to ask him to navigate us through what it meant to be in Hollywood at the time and what Hollywood was at the time. And he was so gracious and he was so committed.

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