"Imagine something you can't do without in your life, and then imagine that thing being taken away from you for three years. Here, Campovolo was the explosion of a pile of emotions that formed in those three years: frustration , impatience, performance anxiety. 30 years in a day, but I assure you they don't fit. There is so much more that I have enjoyed and ventured into".
This is how Luciano Ligabue recounts the film, presented at the Barberini cinema in Rome and which arrives in theaters for three days on 20-21-22 March, which recounts the concert on 4 June in his Campovolo in front of over 100 thousand spectators who flocked to the RCF Arena, after the long stop due to Covid.
The musical film, 'Ligabue.
30 years in one day', directed by Marco Salom, is indeed the story of an unrepeatable evening,
but it is also and above all an opportunity to relive the career of the rocker from Correggio.
A celebration of thirty years that was made up of so much music, but partly also cinema, books and - he reveals in the film - even theater with a musical written and based on his songs, but never realised.
A party that could only be organized in Campovolo, in the countryside where he was born and which he is still very fond of.
In that "square" in which he had gathered fans already in 2005 and 2011. "We always celebrated important stages of my career there. The first time it was chosen because I was presenting my most personal album and I needed to 'home ' - he says -. None of us could imagine what it would become over time. Of course, this was the most overloaded with emotions,
for the wait but also because it was one of the first concerts after the reopening.
There was a need for normality and also to celebrate life".
The film, like the concert, opens with "I wouldn't change this life for any other", "because in the two years of Covid I understood how grateful I am to what happened to me", adds Ligabue again, who made "why not?"
a sort of mantra.
"I said yes to all the why not? except one: acting because I know I don't know how to do it. Have you seen that in 80% of my video clips I walk? It's because I don't know how to do anything else. Only once was I about to give in: to Marco Tullio Giordana who had asked me to interpret the story of an ex-convict. I really appreciated the request, but it was better for him that I didn't do it".
But the passion for cinema has never been lacking, so much so that he took it behind the camera three times, "to indulge in the most villainous of why not?.
On the Radiofreccia set, the Roman troupe said: this makes two films in one: the first and the last.
It wasn't easy to convince them that I knew what I was doing.
This time, however, even if I wanted to, I wouldn't have wanted to – La Liga jokes with a pun -.
Going on stage and shooting a film are different jobs.
All that was missing was that I had to plan this film here". He was struck, he says, after the first screening in theaters, by the audience: "I've really seen them all.
Not just the front rows.
It's a movie with a happy ending, but it also has a happy beginning: so it's happy from start to finish."
I wouldn't have wanted to – La Liga jokes with a play on words -.
Going on stage and shooting a film are different jobs.
All that was missing was that I had to plan this film here". He was struck by the audience, he says, after the screening in theaters for the first time: "I really saw them all.
Not just the front rows.
It's a movie with a happy ending, but it also has a happy beginning: so it's happy from start to finish."
I wouldn't have wanted to – La Liga jokes with a play on words -.
Going on stage and shooting a film are different jobs.
All that was missing was that I had to plan this film here". He was struck by the audience, he says, after the screening in theaters for the first time: "I really saw them all.
Not just the front rows.
It's a movie with a happy ending, but it also has a happy beginning: so it's happy from start to finish."
In the film, in addition to Ligabue's words in those days, the interviews and memories of his musicians and the guests of that evening Francesco De Gregori, Elisa, Loredana Bertè, Eugenio Finardi, Gazzelle, Mauro Pagani.
In July Ligabue will be back live: on the 5th at the Meazza Stadium in Milan and on the 14th at the Olimpico in Rome.
