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Paolo Sorrentino, I come home, as excited as at my wedding

2021-11-17T10:45:45.262Z


Tribute to Troisi and Naples. The Oscar? The road is long (ANSA)


It was the hand of God, like the ship of his cinematographic myth Fellini, goes: "it goes slowly and let's see what happens, we live for the day", says Paolo Sorrentino of the film that Italy has nominated for selection for the Oscars and that after the Grand Jury Prize in Venice 78 and the Mastroianni prize to the protagonist Filippo Scotti is also a candidate for the Efa, the European 'oscars'. The hopes of planting the tricolor again in Hollywood, seven years after the triumph of the Great Beauty, are alive, it is undeniable. After all, in 2021 for Italy, it is not a sin to think of the golden statuette. "Compared to seven years ago there is more awareness because I understand how it works and I think there are so many variables that must coincide,variables you can never control so you have to hope management will take it for themselves. It's a long, complicated process and it's full of good movies, "he admits.


    But in the meantime, today there is another fundamental stage: the real homecoming, in Naples. Sorrentino shot in the city of his adolescence, even in his palace, with the set just one floor below. The city where, as happens to his alter ego protagonist Fabietto (Scotti), between the exaltation for Naples in the 80s crazy for Maradona and his personal tragedy (the accidental and premature loss of his parents), he glimpses his way also thanks to the meeting with the director Antonio Capuano: his future is cinema. "My hope is that the young people who will go and watch it get the idea that one must never abdicate an idea of ​​the future for oneself. There is an age, which is the one I tell in the film, in which this idea can not to see each other and you can feel bad ", explains Sorrentino.


    The film at the Metropolitan cinema with a guest half of Naples, 400 guests, sold out lists and begging for days, the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico and the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini are also expected, a super event. "And? How to participate in my wedding, I know that here in Naples the film will be understood in all its nuances, I am really very excited", says to ANSA Sorrentino who was already excited on the night of the Golden Lions in September in Venice very very much. And then the release: on November 24th in cinemas, with the record figure of 250 copies for a Netflix film and from December 15th on the platform.


    Time passes, from writing to filming to various festival participations (Sorrentino has already been to America, as well as to London) and the emotional matter of the film changes its skin.


    "This film had been on my mind for many years and only now have I found the courage to do it: for unfathomable reasons the right time had come, I had turned 50, I had a great desire to return to shoot in Naples, I felt the need for a summer set almost a possibility of recreation after a hard period for everyone. Today - continues the director, screenwriter and here also producer with Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment - talking almost daily about E 'was the hand of God brought me boredom my pains and this is of great help to me, a nice shortcut for not taking care of their pains even if after the projections the audience ends up telling me about their parents, about lost parents as I have lost them, about grief ".


    The reactions abroad are the same as in the Italian audience: "I think that E 'was the hand of God has immediate recognition, they are feelings that belong to everyone, maybe abroad they don't believe that an extended family like the one I show in the trip to Agerola - scenes of Lucullian eating, group bathrooms, exaggerations, malice and teasing and an aunt who strips naked (Luisa Ranieri), ed - are not possible, instead those who know Naples know that they are absolutely real. they are positive reactions: we laugh and cry and that's exactly what I was hoping for ".


    An intimate, personal film, a turning point also with respect to his cinema, above all true. "The truth - says its protagonist Filippo Scotti, a physicality a la Timothee Chalamet - was the thing that Paolo asked me from the beginning and also from the other actors". Despite the many years passed and the experiences of Sorrentino's life today he is not so far from the Fabietto of that time, "yes we are still the same people, otherwise I would not be here".


    Naples is also an opportunity to remember those times and also the first film, just twenty years ago, The Extra Man, played by the inseparable Toni Servillo. The two told hilarious episodes of the production, an indirect response to Le Figaro which today returns to speak of Naples as a third world city.


    "I couldn't live anywhere else," Servillo said.

"Without wanting to enter political or sociological terrain - added Sorrentino - this city has been doing very well for a very long time, it is not easy to become other than what it is".

Naples is also Troisi.

"My only tutelary deity of this film is Massimo Troisi, he is the director behind so many scenes and in the end, it is not Fellini who can also be seen. ".


Source: ansa

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