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Front November 20, 2012 1:11 PM   • |  Interview: Rome Film
Festival Director Marco Mueller Discusses His First Year and the
Future of Italian Cinema  Rome Film Festival director Marco
Mueller.  Yet his new job in the Italian capital might as well
be the toughest challenge Mueller has faced so far. With a short
and reviled history, the Rome festival was in a disastrous state
prior to Mueller's arrival, which was preceded by an impasse
whose backstage would outshine the most convoluted of all
political thrillers. Indiewire sat down with Mueller as the
festival came to a close last weekend to discuss his first year.
Are you satisfied with how the festival went?  Look, every
festival edition cannot but addressing the previous edition's
dissatisfactions also on the part of those who organize it. This
year, we had not enough time to work on an ideal [festival]; we
had to make do with what we had on our hands, which wasn’t much
in terms of time. I incr