Chiara Leonardi

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Checco's life is a comfortable and luxurious one, and it couldn't be otherwise, considering he's the only son of Eugenio Zalone, a wealthy sofa manufacturer. Stranded by the pool in his luxurious villas, with an unspecified number of Filipinos serving him, a very young Mexican model as a girlfriend, and vacationing on his yacht with friends who share his passion for not wanting to work; it seems like a truly enviable life, considering he lacks nothing, absolutely nothing. Actually, no. Something is missing. It's his underage daughter, Cristal, named after the famous French sparkling wine, who has suddenly disappeared without a trace. Urgently summoned to Rome by his ex-wife, Linda, he finds himself facing the responsibilities of fatherhood for the first time, trying to find the girl—a very complicated task, considering he knows absolutely nothing about Cristal and her life.

A short by Matteo Garrone to present the Dior Spring Summer 2021 Haute Couture Collection.

Chiara was seven years old when she began filming her family. She was twelve when she decided to stop, the year her older sister, Francesca, fell ill. This is how the image of the "perfect family," constructed through the footage shot by a child, began to crumble, to "disintegrate." Alice, a documentary-style short film, is an attempt to "put the pieces back together" by recovering past memories, in a continuous search between rewind and fast-forward.