NEW FROM FILMS WE LIKE
UMBERTO ECO — A LIBRARY OF THE WORLD
A FILM BY DAVIDE FERRARIO
June 7, 2023 – Toronto – Films We Like has acquired Canadian rights to Umberto Eco – A Library of the World directed by Davide Ferrario, a documentary about the bestselling Italian author with perhaps the greatest intellectual appetite of any writer of his time. Umberto Eco had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival last year.
“A truly formidable gathering of information delivered playfully by a master manipulating his own invention — in effect, a long, erudite joke”
– Anthony Burgess (reviewing Umberto Eco’s novel, in The New York Times).
These words aptly describe this documentary immersion in all things Eco. The Italian journalist, critic, philosopher, professor of semiotics, medievalist, bibliophile, and best-selling novelist, Umberto Eco (1932-2016) takes us on a journey through his Milanese library of 50,000 volumes, and, more impressively, the library of his mind. Best known for his novel, The Name of the Rose, Eco is a vastly prolific, witty, and original thinker — and talker — who holds forth on topics as wildly diverse as the value of reading low-brow books, the origins of fascism, the psychology of conspiracy theorists, reading on paper versus digitally, the importance of discarding useless memories, truth versus lies, great fakes, and brilliant mistakes in history.
“To be intellectually curious is to be alive. And believe me, a lot of people are not alive.”
– Umberto Eco.
Be alive. See this film.
Theatrical begins Jul 14, 2023.
Press Kit + Trailer: TBA
Media Contact: Mercy Lam mercy@filmswelike.com
About Films We Like
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include The Eight Mountains, Twice Colonized, EO and Academy Award winning feature Drive My Car.