18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spotting 2000

LIETO FINE - CONVERSAZIONI CON MIMMO CALOPRESTI E SILVIO SOLDINI

THE HAPPY ENDING - CONVERSATIONS WITH MIMMO CALOPRESTI AND SILVIO SOLDINI

Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 50'


Interviews with Mimmo Calopresti and Silvio Soldini, two of the most personal actors of contemporary Italian cinema, two of the few actors who can count on financing and the interest of other European countries, and the authors of two of the most successful and important Italian films of recent years. Discussions of cinema as a profession, of the anguish of the relationship with the viewing audience, of the endless and mysterious beauty of the seventh art.

"It isn't true that cinema today doesn't have an interesting personality, that it doesn't feel strong emotions, that it can't be 'told' with passion. To be a critic today means setting oneself these challenges, something which is even more important than critiquing a film or writing an essay. Lieto Fine and kwCinema are meant to study this idea in-depth and to create a line of research, but they are also the blueprint of an informative style which is different from what can be found today" (Paolo D'Agostini, Mario Sesti).

Biography

film director

Paolo D'Agostini

Paolo D'Agostini (Rome, 1952) has been working for one year at KataWeb, an Internet portal owned by the editorial group "L'Espresso - La Repubblica", where he created kwCinema. He is a journalist and movie critic, and has written articles for the performing arts section of "La Repubblica" ever since the newspaper was founded (1979). He has published essays on Eastern European and Latin American cinema, on Italian comedies during the golden years and on Italian cinema during the 1980's and '90's.

Mario Sesti

Mario Sesti (Messina, Italy, 1958) is a film critic and a documentary filmmaker. He directed, among others, The Lost Ending (2003), La voce di Pasolini (2005, codirected with Matteo Cerami), and the recent La voce di Berlinguer (2013, made with Teho Teardo). He managed the project Cinema Forever from 1998 to 2000, working on restoring several masterpieces of Italian cinema. He collaborated for thirteen years with the magazine “L’Espresso,” and he published biographies on filmmakers likes Nanni Moretti and Pietro Germi. He also wrote some thorough analyses of new Italian cinema and police movies, winning the Diego Fabbri Award in 2008 for In quel film c’è un segreto (published by Feltrinelli). In 2012 he started directing the Taormina Film Festival and he is one of the founding members and curators of the Rome Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

L’ultima sequenza (doc., 2003), La voce di Pasolini (coregia Matteo Cerami, doc., 2005), Fiamme di Gadda. A spasso con l’ingegnere (doc., 2013), La voce di Berlinguer (coregia Teho Teardo, doc., 2013), Senza Lucio (doc., 2014); La voce di Fantozzi (doc., 2017), Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema. Bernardo Bertolucci: No End Travelling (doc., 2019), Mondo sexy (doc., 2019), Altri padri (2021).

Cast

& Credits

Regia e interviste: Paolo D'Agostini, Mario Sesti.
Director of photography: Luca Vetturini.
Editor: Andrea Cianti, Veronica Bugatelli.
Sound: Jonathan Mistretta.
Production company: KataWeb - kwCinema, via Goito 58, 00185 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-492341, e-mail kwcinema@kataweb.it.
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