00:02Hi.
00:03Here.
00:04Hey, hi.
00:05It's nice to meet you.
00:06You're more of a fan of me.
00:07But this one here is a Washington.
00:09It's a Washington.
00:10Exactly.
00:11Know why I'm asking?
00:12The idea that my father set the Finzi Cantini Garden in Ferrara fashion.
00:19But since there was no Washington in the Finzi Cantini Garden and there was a joke,
00:23this is a Washington palm tree, Nicola Menetti said.
00:27And so he shot a scene in Ferrara.
00:30One here at the Botanical Garden on this palm tree here.
00:34And then on these palm trees in the city center.
00:37Imagine in the cinema you do the same scene in three different fields.
00:42Incredible.
00:44What I'm trying to say is that your family clearly has a significant connection to the field of botany, don't
00:49you think?
00:50And I know you filmed some scenes in this botanical garden.
00:54A portion of it anyway, correct?
00:55Yes.
00:56Lemons in winter.
00:57Yes.
00:58But I don't have a green thumb.
01:01My wife, yes.
01:03In Capri, where I used to have a house by the sea, I planted a great many palm trees.
01:08They became enormous.
01:10Eventually I was obliged to sell the house.
01:11And it was a painful decision because those were my creations, if you understand.
01:15If you understand.
01:16Sure.
01:17But you often come to the Botanical Garden, you know?
01:19This is an unknown place in Rome.
01:21Almost no one comes here.
01:23Did you know that he used to live nearby?
01:25That was Palazzo Corsini right next door.
01:27Bernardo Bertolucci lived there.
01:28He had a house there.
01:29Yeah.
01:30Well, at a certain point they used to do a lot of things up here.
01:33Then it went out of fashion.
01:34I don't know for what reason.
01:35At the moment reason.
01:36Okay.
01:37We are producing a show about intelligence.
01:39And memory.
01:40And because I am a botanist.
01:41Anyway, I thought let's start our work a little at the Botanical Garden.
01:44Because we're aimed specifically on, it seems like a mad-
01:47Mpa-pa-ha.
01:49Seems like a madness.
01:50Oh, la-fa.
01:52Plants are able to remember and then we have to figure out how to decipher these memories.
01:58Right.
01:58But they exist.
02:00But for example, there are some plants in my house.
02:03I have a terrace.
02:04Right.
02:04Some plants are lucky.
02:06Right.
02:08And they do well.
02:09And you understand that they are doing well while others are doing badly.
02:12There's nothing you can do.
02:13You can't save them.
02:14Yes, there's nothing you can do.
02:15You're right.
02:16If they decide.
02:17Decide there's nothing you can do.
02:19And others instead grow lush.
02:21And do well.
02:22And that positivity reaches me.
02:25You feel it?
02:26Yes.
02:26Yes.
02:27Well, this is another fundamental issue.
02:28That is being with plants is good for your health.
02:30And it really makes you feel good.
02:32It makes you feel good.
02:33It's meppe.
02:33It's so death.
02:35Hear me.
02:36Wow.
02:36Thank you so much, Christian, for this chat now.
02:39Because I baww.
02:40Meaning I find it really nice to know that a location like the Botanical Garden has been
02:45a part of the glorious history of Italian cinema of aww.
02:54You're family, it's a very important element.
02:57Thank you very much.
02:58You know, first of all, grab an umbrella because it's going to rain here soon.
03:01Bye, Christian.
03:02Bye.
03:02Goodbye.
03:02Bye.
03:03.
