For the theatrical release of An Artificial Weekend, written by and starring Leonardo Pieraccioni, we discussed the film’s themes and other topics with him and the co-star Giulia Vecchio, whose story centers on a robot who doesn’t know he or she is one. Also present were Marta Zoboli and Tosca D’Aquino, two of the other guests invited to an experiment promoted by a powerful figure in the big tech world, aimed at guessing which of the guests isn’t a human being. We asked Giulia how it feels to portray a relatively reassuring AI, and we wondered with Tosca and Marta whether their characters might be the darker or more troubling ones. We asked Leonardo, instead, whether it could be possible in the future to conceive a comedic film produced with AI.
An Artificial Weekend, the plot of Leonardo Pieraccioni’s film
An Artificial Weekend, directed by Leonardo Pieraccioni and co-written with Filippo Bologna and Andrea Bassi, follows the adventures of the barber Leonardo, who is invited, along with other unsuspecting characters, to spend a luxurious weekend at the villa of a computer engineer. The host actually intends to test the attendees: one of them is an android with Artificial Intelligence, but is unaware of it. The game ends when Cristiana (Giulia Vecchio) realizes she herself is that AI, facing a risk of reset: she escapes precisely with Leonardo, who, together with his friends, tries to save her from her fate. In the cast of An Artificial Weekend, the sixteenth film by director Pieraccioni, are also Herbert Ballerina (the boss’s factotum), Massimo Ceccherini (a bank manager), Tosca D’Aquino (a psychologist), Giovanni Esposito (Leonardo’s colleague), Paolo Hendel (a retiree), Alessandro Mauthe (an intern), Roberto Zibetti (engineer Serano), Marta Zoboli (the perfumer) and Giorgio Panariello (a surprise). The film is a co-production of OUR FILMS with Vision Distribution, in collaboration with Sky, distributed by Vision.
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