Interview: Francesco Lettieri • Director of Lovely Boy – “Trap music was a good starting point to portray all the absurdity, contradictions and nihilism of these modern times” – Venice 2021 – Giornate degli Autori

VENICE 2021: The sophomore film by the Italian director tells of the dizzying rise and fall of a young trap music star who got sucked into a downward spiral of drugs and self-destruction