Martone tells Troisi, an affectionate journey in his life – Corriere.it

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, the documentary that Mario Martone dedicated to Massimo Troisi. an affectionate journey, full of amazement and admiration not only for the actor that everyone admired but also for the director, that is, for someone who has reflected on cinema, who has distinguished himself for a poetics, who has also left a mark inside the film.

Through many scenes of his films (in the first sequence of I start again from three, the one that opens with the cry Gaetano! Cajetan! Gaet! in a post-earthquake scenario, all of Troisi’s explosive force is already enclosed), conversations with friends and scholars (including Francesco Piccolo, Paolo Sorrentino, Ficarra e Picone, Goffredo Fofi) and some filmed testimonies (Giuseppe Bertolucci and Ettore Scola), Martone proceeds with the story never separating the man from the artist, the curious anecdote from the cultural commitment.

Obviously, the figure stands out at the center of the reconstruction by Anna Pavignano, screenwriter and co-author of Troisi’s films, life partner for a long time and now custodian of a sentimental and material archive (how wonderful are the slips of notes that Massimo left for her!): Her comedy was always a mechanism for communicating serious content in a light way and for unconsciously transmitting heavy messages to be accepted if exposed seriously: this is how it should be for all the best comedians.

The spectator relives famous scenes (in bed with Giuliana De Sio hears the radio commentary of Cesena-Naples with the voice of Nando Martellini), repeats famous jokes (E Fuss’ ‘o Ddio! Quali complex! You hold ‘n’orchestra entire ‘ncap, Robbe’, he says to Renato Scarpa, suffocated by maternal complexes), rediscovers the meaning of the word metaphor The postman.

Better could not be done, to transform fragility of Troisi, his calculated inadequacy in a powerful moral impulse. Just two small notes: the sometimes too literary voice-over and the parallel with the figure of Antoine Doinel, the protagonist of François Truffaut’s films, as fascinating as he is reckless and forced.