Once upon a time there was Sergio Leone, between myth and revolution

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 16 - In Once Upon a Time in America, Noodles (Robert De Niro) was walking through a ConeyIsland door, transporting us to the story thirty years later. It is one of the many emotions recreated in Once Upon a Time Sergio Leone, an enthralling exhibition dedicated to the great Roman filmmaker, conceived and created by the Cinémathèque Française and the Cineteca of Bologna, which after a debut about a year ago in Paris (where it achieved great success) ), reports the film and private universes of the filmmaker in his city, at the Ara Pacis Museum, from December 17th to May 3rd.
A journey marked by personal objects, such as the director's desk, some of his books or the Petrof plan where EnnioMorricone listened to his childhood friend (they were classmates in elementary school) the scores of the soundtracks for his films, together with models, sets, scripts, storyboards, sketches, costumes, props, hundreds of photographs from the set and family. A world of images and sounds enriched by the screens, which take us back to the masterpieces of the filmmaker, able both to revolutionize the forms of storytelling, the western genre in the first place, and to celebrate the myth. "I am very excited because this exhibition that I have already seen in Paris is extraordinary - explains the CEO of the Leone Film Group, the daughter of the filmmaker, Raffaella Leone (sister of Andrea eFrancesca), who has made a lot of material available to her family -. my father tells us, the man, the director. It is like a blast from the past. I enjoyed showing where his work started from and where it came from, making me understand what he was doing over time. irony that belonged to him. Then there was no place more beautiful and meaningful to bring back a Roman to Rome. I know that for Luigi he would have been very important of this exhibition, he would have been satisfied ". (HANDLE).