#78thVeniceInternationalFilmFestival #quiridoio #raicinema
Simona Cochi reviewing Qui rido io The King of Laughter { a film by Mario Martone } INDIGO FILM and RAI CINEMA with TONI SERVILLO
MARIA NAZIONALE, CRISTIANA DELL’ANNA, ANTONIA TRUPPO, EDUARDO SCARPETTA ROBERTO DE FRANCESCO, LINO MUSELLA, PAOLO PIEROBON with GIANFELICE IMPARATO and starring IAIA FORTE
an Italian and Spanish co-production produced by
INDIGO FILM with RAI CINEMA
in co-production with TORNASOL
At the beginning of the twentieth century, in the Naples of the Belle Époque, theaters and cinemas are on the rise. The great comedian Eduardo Scarpetta is the box-office king. Suc- cess made him a very rich man: from his humble origins, he established himself on the scene with his comedies and the mask and character of Felice Sciosciammocca, who managed to replace Pulcinella in the hearts of the Neapolitan audiences. The theater is his life, and his complex family core gravitates around the theater, with wives, companions, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children including Titina, Eduardo and Pep- pino De Filippo. At the height of his success, Scarpetta allows himself what will prove to be a dangerous gamble. He deci- des to parody the play “The Daughter of Iorio”, a tragedy by the greatest Italian poet of the time, Gabriele D’Annunzio. On opening night, all hell breaks loose: the play is interrupted by screams, whistles and insults from the poets and playwrights of the new generation who cry out scandal, and Scarpetta ends up being sued for plagiarism by D’Annunzio himself. And so the first historic copyright lawsuit in Italy begins. The years of the trial will be exhausting for him and his whole fa- mily, so much so that the delicate balance that held it together seems on the verge of dissolving. Everything in Scarpetta’s life seems to be going in pieces, but with a great actor’s perfor- mance he’ll manage to challenge a fate that wanted him a loser, and he’ll win his last game.
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The creative gesture of "direct capture" (the camera like a brush) blends different and transversal elements and draws on the visual heritage, the digital, the sound in a field with still unexplored possibilities but which has the characteristics of a 21st-century Surrealism.
