Inspiration. ‘The Great Pirandello’
Address: Roberto Ando
artists: Toni Servillo, Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone
Year: 2022
Premiere: March 3, 2023
★★
Luigi Pirandello She returns to her hometown in Sicily and learns that her old wet nurse has just passed away. He decides to hold an honorable funeral where he hires two curious gravediggers devoted to amateur theatre. In fact, the movie begins with a disastrous rehearsal for one of his performances. The film is about the relationship between the author of ‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’, the author of the play he wrote in 1920, when the action took place, and such bizarre theatrical gravediggers, the debauchery and depravity of one another. quite the opposite The approach is quite interesting, a reflection/fabulation around the relationships established between the creators and their characters. But the manager Robert Ando, he often prefers to lean towards a more traditional genre, light comedy, as if he wanted to make a more popular film rather than a true analysis of the art of literary or theatrical creation.
playing Pirandello toni servillo, a brilliant actor and the best-known of contemporary Italian cinema, sometimes too vampyre of his doomed characters. Loving real and famous people (Pirandello, Pablo VI in ‘Exterior noche’, Berlusconi in ‘Silvio et al’ or Giulio Andreotti in ‘Il divo’), Servillo modeled a style that was identifiable but not too soft.