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The cinema restarts from Cannes, 9 minutes of applause for Martone's Nostalgia

2022-05-25T08:05:50.270Z


Party with the stars for 75 / o. Favino 'I found my South' (ANSA)


Nine minutes of applause for the premiere of

Nostalgia

, the new film by Mario Martone with Pierfrancesco Favino, in competition and in theaters starting today in 450 copies with Medusa.


A big party with all the movie stars from Guillermo Del Toro to Paolo Sorrentino, from Claude Lelouche to Kristen Stewart, Adele Exarchopulos, Lea Seydoux and dozens of others, a hundred in all: this is how the festival celebrated

the 75th anniversary last night.

anniversary

.

General Delegate Thierry Fremaux called the guests seated in the stalls, who had previously been the protagonists of an unforgettable Montée des Marches, to the stage of the Grand Theater Lumiere.

Once on stage they applauded each other.

"We are not celebrating the past but the future. Cinema is not dead, cinema is alive, it is here", he said, leaving an exciting image to those present.


    An eighth day (with the Maneskins barricaded in the Marriott hotel in anticipation of the grand premiere tonight of

Elvis by Baz Luhrmann

and a beach party) which will remain historic for Cannes.

After the ceremony, the screening of the out-of-competition film The Innocent, a family drama directed by Louis Garrel, was followed by a gala dinner for 75 / o at the Marché Forville in the old town of Cannes.

And again yesterday applause for the long-awaited out-of-competition documentary

Moonage Daydream

by Brett Morgan which thrilled David Bowie's fans and thrilled the entire audience.

The film is not the usual musical biopic but an immersion in the artistic path of a unique and lonely personality like that of David Bowie.

The director had access to the infinite David Bowie Estate with over 5,000 assets including videos, objects, interviews, films, a treasure chest that he used to make an auteur documentary.


    In Nostalgia the protagonist Felice Lasco (Favino in his first Neapolitan film) returns to Naples after 40 years to see the elderly mother he had left suddenly when he was still a boy.

In the neighborhood where he was born, Sanità wanders, gets lost, almost does not understand the language but there is something that attracts him, the memories of a distant life with Oreste (Tommaso Ragno), the best childhood friend, become a spontaneous and unstoppable reason to regain roots despite his life as a rich entrepreneur waiting for him in Cairo with a beloved wife.

The neighborhood has changed, but for the worse, with a priest (Francesco Di Leva) trying to keep the boys away from the Camorra.

Among those alleys an almost invincible force forces him to stay, it is 'nostalgia'.


    elsewhere and the fact that elsewhere you find yourself is incredible.

Return: that gesture becomes more important there than the landing ".


    The literary extraction of Nostalgia was a spring for Martone.

"For the first time while asking myself the meaning of this story, I have not found answers, I have entrusted myself to Ermanno Rea and his labyrinth. I got lost, deliberately".

It was also, for the Neapolitan director, a return.

"Places of cinema, places of the soul", he says.

"I was fascinated by many things in Rea's novel, certainly the possibility of making a film all in one neighborhood, an enclave like Sanità that the Neapolitans themselves know little about and that was a no-man's land, a far west of the Camorra. imagined as a labyrinth, a chessboard, Borgesian forms in which one imagines that characters make a journey in the past and in the present. There was in all this a cinematographic form that tempted me, the


Source: ansa

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