The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Garrone, evil and violated childhood, so Gomorrah still lives

2021-04-15T11:53:00.213Z


Awarded in Cannes, now New Edition. "Pinocchio makes indie history at the Oscars and without 'push'" (ANSA)


Gomorrah, the film by Matteo Garrone that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in the magical year 2008, in which Roberto Saviano walked proudly on the Croisette with an escort in tow, Paolo Sorrentino who with Il Divo won the Jury Prize and a unrivaled Toni Servillo protagonist of both, is a masterpiece.

And this is well known, it is no coincidence that it was among the most awarded Italian works.

But after 13 years "he hasn't aged a day, he's still very contemporary".


    The director, who with the two technical nominations (Make-up and costumes) is competing for the Oscars with the latest Pinocchio, reflects on that film that changed his life from many points of view.

And he has given himself a mission: "To make the children aware of the film, which is not the homonymous TV series that they love so much", he says with a smile, presenting Gomorra New Edition, a new edition broadcast on Rai3 in prime time on Friday 16 April and then on RaiPlay and available on DVD and Blu-ray from 14 April, distributed by Eagle Pictures for 01 Distribution.

For the young people Gomorrah is Ciro and Genny, Schianel and Imma Savastano, who know about the tailor (Salvatore Cantalupo, unfortunately passed away) who teaches the Chinese to falsify the made in Italy, of Maria who receives the 'mesata' at the Vele di Scampia , by Franco (Servillo) who poisons the land of the Fires with the toxic waste of the North, by Marco (Marco Macor) and Pisellino (Ciro Petrone), two kids with the myth of Scarface who think they can do it on their own without the Casalesi and they end up underground.

A story that gives you chills every time.

"They stop me on the street - says Garrone - and congratulate me on the series".

Then the curiosity: "I saw the film with my teenage son, he didn't quite understand what it was about, he was very impressed, attracted and displaced. Hence the idea of ​​a new edition, of reviving Gomorrah for a new audience, rediscovering scene after scene its actuality and at the same time eternity: inside Gomorrah - he replies to ANSA - there are essential and universal themes, violated childhood, conflicts, the difficulty of living, the violence that surrounds us. black fairy tale with great visual power, a realism that borders on science fiction, but instead it is a reality like the one that aspiring Camorra kids live who are not fully aware, they are even naive. And then on all the sometimes inhuman humanity of his characters. Gomorrah is an archetype, he moves any spectator because the themes are always close to us ".


    Thanks to Saviano's novel, "I thank Fandango again for giving me the opportunity to make a film of it".

So Garrone went back to work: "I inserted explanatory signs at the beginning of each of the 5 stories to make the film more understandable, I inserted shots of the seats to better contextualize it, I redid 7 scenes, made 50 cuts and shortened the film. of 10 minutes. Fundamental and at the same time invisible interventions ".

"It is a very topical film", underlines Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema, while Domenico Procacci of Fandango recalled the birth of the work.

"We were reading Saviano's draft with the publishing house Fandango, which was waiting for answers from various publishers. We liked it immediately, but Mondadori won it, but we played the advantage and as soon as possible we took the exploitation rights. To Garrone, who had done it. with us the Embalmer was proposed, so it all began ".

And during the shooting, on the set in Scampia, Garrone met Nunzia De Stefano, "the mother of my son" - with Nevia he made his debut with great appreciation in 2019 - and therefore also very personal reasons tie him to Gomorra and to these places where "I I feel at home and where before going I expected to find bad and good, while the reality is much less clear ".

The near future is a film yet to be found, a story "to fall in love with. I love going against the tide, I don't rule out making TV series in the future, but for now we don't talk about it, I want to make films for the cinema and from filmmaker I hope in theaters reopening, I love to see films there, I have this romantic idea ".

At the time of the design of the film Gomorrah, Garrone with Domenico Procacci had talked about making a series of it, "but the times were not ripe. In hindsight I would have gladly done a Gomorra 1 and Gomorra 2, shooting that trip to the inside a world almost live, we were invisible in there. I am left with the feeling of not having been able to explore many other themes of the book, the story of Don Diana fascinated me a lot, as well as the female aspect of the Camorra ".


    Meanwhile, on April 25 there is the appointment with the Oscars: "I enjoy the happiness of the two historical nominations - make-up and hair and costumes ed - for an independent Italian film, without a platform or major behind, without someone to bring it forward. Hollywood, something truly unique, you have to go back 50 years for an Italian film that manages to follow this path. "

Do you regret not being selected by Italy?

"Right now the last thing I would do is a controversy, I would never do it, it would be in bad taste".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

All life articles on 2021-04-15

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-15T10:01:13.933Z

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.