(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 26 - There was no lack of tears and strong emotions on the part of the boys watching, at the Giffoni Film Festival, The law of the earthquake, the documentary, directorial debut by Alessandro Preziosi, on the 1980 Irpinia earthquake (lived since actor in his hometown, Avellino, at the age of 7), but also sutanti other earthquakes (both collective and intimate events) and desires of rebirth. "I felt here a unique impact of the film - the actor and neo-director, also protagonist of a meeting, told ANSA - I was amazed to see how these guys have appreciated and grasped all the various figures of my attempt to tell a part of my country" .
The non-fiction film, which had debuted at the Rome Film Festival, should have had an November event, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the earthquake, a debut confirmed by the pandemic. Now it is hoped that it will always arrive in November, for the 41 years since the earthquake. "Now one of the most important challenges that we must win is to bring people back to enjoy the live show, for the moment it is still very difficult, also because the programming is very complex". The crime series Masantonio - Disappeared Section has also just ended on Canale 5. If Mediaset decides to continue for a second season, would it like to go ahead? "I would do anything to do it again, even to finally know where my niece is," he replies with a smile.
Meanwhile, again with Mediaset, the actor is developing unaromantic comedy, a TV film "that will combine kitchen and stove", which he could also direct, and is "working on my first fiction film for the cinema", he says. Then his films as an actor will arrive: the first, on October 16 on Netflix, will be My brother, my sister by Roberto Capucci, "unadramedy that I play with the extraordinary Claudia Pandolfi," a story about forgiveness ". Fausto Brizzi, "a delightful comedy" that "pushes us to understand how deeply small children have a deep sensitivity." Preziosi is also one of the interpreters of Francesco Patierno's La peste, an original adaptation of the novel by Camus, also linked to the covid emergency. (ANSA ).
