THE “AMERICA LATINAS”
Fabio D’Innocenzo (co-director and co-writer)
«“It’s love” is the claim on the poster, because love means rejoining ghosts, obsessions and to the uncertainty of the future: these are wild-cart factors of a movie deeply tender. I also called in love on set, then it’s love».
Damiano D’Innocenzo (co-director and co-writer)
«I didn’t fall in love instead. The movie has thriller elements, but it’s not, we can define it as a psychological thriller. We love genres because they have precise rules and is nice being aware of those rules to bypass them. America Latina contains many genres, we wanted to be unfit with ourselves».
Elio Germano (Actor)
«In Favolacce I was the typical “alpha male”, here I deconstructed the character to let the camera enter in the emotions and frailties I had to express. I worked on gaps and openings, I had to lose myself, the character is the antithesis of the macho man and of a winner he’s tender and has a female sensibility that allows him an interior investigation rather than an outlet with weapons as in a classic genre movie».
Fabio D’Innocenzo (co-director and co-writer)
«The female side saves us, love puts everything at the right place and let life flies: this is not a “Journey at the end of the night”, but a “Journey at the end of a man”, my brother said this quote, but I steal it».
Elio Germano (Actor)
«What’s important today is the performance, what matters are figures and not feeling and this is the paradox of the title America Latina. America is how we want to look: strong and winners, Latina is the dissipation, our swamp. the basement of the movie is the side of us that we don’t want to show. There’s an internal conflict and to recognize it we need a sensibility that today is not fashion. Massimo makes a journey to put himself together, a journey inside him to find sincerity again».
È BOOM PER I FILM DOC SUI GRANDI DELLA MUSICA
Music found a wall for many years to be told on the big screen. The few doc and biopic made even by great directors were terrible at the box office and sunken by bad reviews. Then something changed and now the genre is full of new stories and Venezia 78 confirms this trend with six movies dedicated to great musicians. There’s a precise reason, said Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Raicinema, during the presentation of the movie by Giorgio Verdelli about Ezio Bosso, produced by Nicola Giuliano, a year after the incredible success of Via con me, dedicated to Paolo Conte:
“The language to tell musical stories is changed. No more documentaries, but movies. The taste of the audience changes”. This year in Venice there were movies about Leonard Cohen and Led Zeppelin, but also a documentary about Ornella Vanoni, Senza Fine by Elisa Fuksas. Cristiano De André arrived at Lido yesterday for the documentary DeAndré#Deandré Storia di un impiegato by Roberto Lena. The musical box of this year’s festival is filled with the screening out of competition of Ennio by Oscar winner realizzato Giuseppe Tornatore, a portrait of the great soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone.
