Mario Martone

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25 August 2019Martone, Maresco, Marcello, MMM in the prestigious arena of the Venice 76 competition (28 August - 7 September) with Argentina's Lucrecia Martel presiding over the jury that will award the 2019 Golden Lion: three Italians with a common thread , that of the past and recent history of Italy, immersed in rarefied ethics, re-read beyond the facts.

There is a classic of the moral theater of Eduardo De Filippo reported to the contemporary Naples of Gomorra in the rigorous operation in the text carried out by Mario Martone who returns to the competition for the second year in a row (after "Capri Revolution") in THE MAYOR OF THE RIONE SANITA 'with Francesco Di Leva in the role of the godfather Antonio Barracano to whom everyone asks for justice and protection, a capocamorra almost in spite of himself poised between morals and power.

There is the grotesque reading of Sicily 25 years after the massacres of Falcone and Borsellino in LA MAFIA NO MORE THAN ONE OF A TIME by Franco Maresco in which the disenchanted director clashes with the civil passion of the eighty-year-old photographer who with her scatti recounted all the mafia crimes, while Ciccio Mira, the impresario of the square deals with the concert of the "Neomelodici per Falcone e Borsellino".

And then there is still Naples where Pietro Marcello sets up Jack London's MARTIN EDEN (there it was California) to tell the same story of a training novel, about the culture that drives away poverty, about the social classes that divide at every latitude, about love that moves everything with an extraordinary power: a story that is a world and makes a mockery of the temporal rules with a chameleon-like Luca Marinelli who, from an illiterate sailor becomes, in love with the upper middle-class Elena, a successful novelist. The Italian trio has a red thread in the sguincio tale and in its own way realistic of our country troubled in the dialectic good / evil, despite stories of fantasy or literary references. The three ideally lead a large Italian patrol composed of directors loved by the public and young emerging disseminating talents in each section without the ghettos of a few years ago.

Out of Competition there are the new film by Gabriele Salvatores ALL MY MY LOVE, on the road on diversity with a teenager who drags the three most important adults of his life Claudio Santamaria, Valeria Golino, Diego Abatantuono (from the successful novel by Fulvio Ervas "If I embrace you, don't be afraid") and LIVING by Francesca Archibugi, family history with the couple Micaela Ramazzotti and Adriano Giannini.

In the world premiere there are two episodes each of the same number of international TV series, by Sky Studios: THE NEW POPE by Paolo Sorrentino with Jude Law and John Malkovich and ZEROZEROZERO by Stefano Sollima, from Roberto Saviano's book on cocaine trafficking.

But there is much more like the "truer story" of the entrepreneur influencer Chiara Ferragni in CHIARA FERRAGNI - UNPOSTED by Elisa Amoruso in the Sconfini section that also proposes EFFETTO DOMINO by Alessandro Rossetto on the economic crisis in the Northeast, the "surprising and indefinable "THE VARCO by Federico Ferrone and Michele Manzolini.

Out of Competition in the fiction section, in addition to Salvatores and Archibugi, the closing film THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY by Giuseppe Capotondi is also Italian, while in the non-fiction film IL PIANETA IN MARE by Andrea Segre tells of Marghera and its environmental impact. CITIZEN ROSI by Didi Gnocchi and Carolina Rosi is a film about Italian history through Francesco Rosi's civil cinema.

In races in the Orizzonti section there is the autobiographical debut of Nunzia De Stefano (ex-wife of Matteo Garrone, known on the set of Gomorra, who grew up in a Ponticelli container for displaced people from the 80 earthquake) NEVIA, and the debut of Carlo Sironi (Alberto's son, the director of Montalbano who died recently) with SOLE.

Biennale College makes Chiara Campara make her debut with LESSONS OF LOVE, while among the Venice Classics documentaries there are FELLINI FINE MAI by Eugenio Cappuccio, BOIA, MASCHERE E SEGRETI: THE ITALIAN HORROR OF THE SIXTY YEARS by Steve Della Casa, IF THERE ' AN ALDILA 'ARE FUCKED. LIFE AND CINEMA OF CLAUDIO CALIGARI by Simone Isola and Fausto Trombettta, LIFE AS A B-MOVIE: PIERO VIVARELLI by Fabrizio Laurenti and Niccolo 'Vivarelli, FULCI FOR FAKE by Simone Scafidi. Finally an Italian short film at Orizzonti: SUPEREROI SENZA SUPERPOTERI by Beatrice Baldacci.