Luca Guadagnino didn’t come to Switzerland to share updates on the drama surrounding his OpenAI movie, Artificial, during a meeting with reporters at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. To be precise, Guadagnino came to Locarno, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, to discuss Ketticè, the sophomore feature of his former assistant, writer-director Giovanni Tortorici (Diciannove). ‘Ketticè’ Courtesy of Locarno Film FestivalBut then, something happened with “the advent of private TV and the Berlusconi empire,” Guadagnino offered. ‘Ketticè’ Courtesy of Locarno Film FestivalTortorici said his film explores how institutions, such as school, family and the state, fail kids. I think family is the structure that [creates] the next repressed person.