Steven Holden wrote in The New York Times that "not since Y Tu Mamá También has a movie so palpably captured the down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood reality of high-spirited people living their lives without self-consciousness."
Coco invites him to bring his family to stay with her at her villa in Garches – 'Bel Respiro'.
He is the author of a novel in English, The Book of Breathing, that appeared first in Italian as Il libro del respiro, as well as of another novel in Italian, L’imbarazzo della scelta, and an essay on Marcel Proust, Alla ricerca del tempo sprecato.