Venezia 78, a success in figures
Almost 30.000 tickets sold for Venezia 78. Figures are related to the first seven days. 29.742 tickets with an increase of 87% compared to the same period of the previous edition. Boxol ticketing system managed more than 200.000 transactions and 3.000 Covid test bookings. More than 6000 tickets have been sold in the last two days.
77% of the seating has been covered.
Freaks Out, Guaglianone: “We talk about monsters acting like men and men acting like monsters”
Venezia 78, this is the day of Gabriele Mainetti and Freaks Out and its protagonists Claudio Santamaria, Pietro Castellitto, Aurora Giovinazzo and Giancarlo Martini. Qui riportiamo i passaggi più significativi:
Mainetti:
“Nicola and I asked ourselves what we wanted to tell after They Call Him Jeeg Robot. We made a list of all our favourite movies and of the movies, we wanted to do and WWS came out almost immediately. We were amused about the idea to oppose these very special freaks to a strong antagonist, the nazis, and see what happen. This conflict gave birth to the storytelling.”
Guaglianone:
“The idea of WWS enlighten him, it was the same spark I saw when we created a superhero in Tor Bella Monaca. We wanted to tell the story of monsters acting like man and man acting like monsters and the idea let us shiver. And we decided that was the right idea“.
Del Brocco:
“I believe that this movie is a watershed for the film industry, for its quality, for the storytelling, the mix of genres. I felt a bit guilty about Gabriele because, even if I believed in Jeeg since the beginning, I didn’t make the right investment in the movie. We had this chance and we are happy to share this experience.”
Il silenzio grande: Gassmann and the cast
«QThis movie is a sweet gesture. I wonder that watching this makes people hugging and listening each others». This what Alessandro Gassmann said at the end of the screening of his movie Il silenzio grande, based on a novel by Maurizio De Giovanni. The Italian actor directed and also appears in a cameo role. The movie was cheered with a warm applause by the audience of Sala Perla and will be released next week. The whole cast attended the screening, except Margherita Buy that is busy on set. Her partner on this movie is Massimiliano Gallo who shares with Gassman the experience on the tv series I bastardi di Pizzofalcone also based on a series of novels by De Giovanni. «Silence is a bad illness. It starts slowly and then grows. Many little silence makes a huge one and this one is scary» says Marina Confalone, the great Neapolitan actress who was very moved and started crying not even being able to answer to the press.
Django&Django, Franco Nero: «Corbucci was a genius of pop cinema»
«Franco, how many people we kill today, 50 or 30?» asked ironically Sergio Corbucci to Franco Nero when the two of them shot westerns like Django. Taliking about that movie the actor remembers that «I was 24 and Sergio gave me the chance to popular all over the world». Nero introduced the documentary Django&Django – Sergio Corbucci Unchainedwith the director Luca Rea, the co-writer Steve Della Casa, the film editor Stuart Mabey, the co-producer Tilde Corsi and the producer Nicoletta Ercole, former costume designer for many directors including Corbucci: «I thought it was about time to give back to Sergio what she did for me» she said. There’s also a conversation with Quentin Tarantino who, Rea said, «atried to write a book about Corbucci’s western production» and that, added Della Casa, «has a sane attitude for this kind of cinema, not a nostalgic one» as he shown with Django Unchained. «lThe spirit of the wonderful film with Franco Nero lived again for contemporary audience». «He made political movies», said Nero about Corbucci who was «a genius of popular cinema».
Emanuele Bucci
