The film will open the 80th Venice Film Festival tonight. ‘Commander’he took on the rebounding role; Prizes were awarded to those responsible for those initially selected to take advantage of this privilege. ‘Rivals’, a comedy starring Zendaya, set in the world of tennis, directed by Luca GuadagninoDue to the American actors’ strike, he decided to remove the film from the game show and delay its theatrical release for several months.
Although it is tempting to assume this in the end, it is impossible to predict the repercussions of change in terms of artistic quality. Mostra lost by change. In any case, what is indisputable is that thanks to her, the opening of the festival has become a much more local event: instead of revolving around an actress with millions of fans around the world, it simply revolves around a promising film. It’s not possible to run too far outside of Italy but at the same time It promotes a proud, aggressive and somewhat offensive Italianness.
Mussolini and the ‘law of the sea’
This is the attitude of the director of the film himself. Edoardo Angelisbragged in front of the press this morning. ‘When I heard his story, I thought: if being Italian means being like him, I’m proud to be,’ he said of the ‘Comandante’ commander. About salvatore todaroDuring a mission leading the crew in October 1940 cappellini submarine, bombarded and sank a Belgian ship that had previously fired on them. Then putting the human instinct before the ideologies, Mussolini’s ordersHe saved the lives of his survivors by letting them board his ship.
The claim that the movie most clearly makes in portraying him is, of course, to justify the character’s greatness and to make him an asset through the tremendous effort put into the task. messianic dimension and has almost superhuman abilities.
We’re playing anti-war
Our other main purpose De Angelis and co-author Sandro Veronesi -‘Comandante’ is half based on the novel they wrote’ – recreating the past and talking about the present. On the one hand, they want to commemorate the leaders with the phrase known as their own country. “law of the sea”, salvaging a sunken ship It is a necessity even in times of war, and therefore it is a crime to abandon those who try to enter Europe in the midst of waves fleeing dictatorships and misery to their fate. On the other hand, they try to remember that agreement is possible between the soldiers on the opposite side, and for this purpose they even make references to the Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in the film.
Both are noble intentions, and both are torpedoed and even contradicted over the course of the two-hour shoot. because though pretending to be anti-war and largely through his general vanity and efforts to apply visual poetry, the ‘Comandante’ epic exalts beauty and even martial art. And by the way, the movie avoids going into details about it. ideology It would be less offensive if Todaro and his men were fighting for the side and even to describe them as Fascists, if he hadn’t taken the trouble to praise the goodness of Italian character and Italian character at the same time. technology, Italian music and even Italian gastronomy insistently He used to move the ‘Duce’ himself.
pro-strike t-shirts
The head of the jury, the filmmaker who will award the Golden Lion this year Damien Chazelle This morning, he showed his support for the strikes of the screenwriters and actors operating in his country by going to the press conference with a T-shirt and a badge that reads “The Screenwriters Union is on strike”. The director of ‘Whiplash’ (2013) and ‘La La Land’ (2016) also emphasized the current state of American cinema:Today is the 121st day since the screenwriters went on strike, since the actors went on strike. All works of art have value in themselves and not just content put in a row.. And this very basic idea has been eroded in Hollywood for 10 years.