31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
MEANWHILE IN ITALY
LA PAZZA DELLA PORTA ACCANTO, CONVERSAZIONE CON ALDA MERINI
by Antonietta De Lillo
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 50'
Alda Merini tells her life in a personal and familiar narrative, fluctuating between public and private, lingering on the most significant chapters of her existence: childhood, womanhood, love, maternity and the relationship with her children, madness and the lucid reflection on poetry and art. The face of the poetess and the details of her eyes, hands, and body create a portrait that does not hide the contradictions of one of the most important and renowned literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the program, Frammenti d’amore per il film partecipato will be projected: archive material, animated films, home movies of weddings, documentaries, works still in production, all of which will compose Oggi insieme domani Anche, the second “participated” film of marechiarofilm, about topics regarding love and separation in contemporary Italian society.
Biography
film director
Antonietta De Lillo
Antonietta De Lillo (Naples, 1960) began working as a photo reporter and then, in 1985, directed with Giorgio Magliulo The Remains of Nothing, Silver Ribbon as Best First Film. Between 1992 and 1999 she made various documentaries and video portraits, including Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore, dedicated to Alda Merini. Her film Racconti di Vittoria (1995) received the FEDIC Award and the Film Critic Union’s Award in Venice, while Non è giusto participated at the Locarno Film Festival. The Remains of Nothing (2004), presented in Venice, won three David di Donatellos and the Flaiano Award for Best Screenplay. In 2007 she founded the production and distribution company Marechiarofilm, with which she made La pazza della porta accanto and Let’s Go, both presented at the Torino Film Festival, in 2013 and 2014.
FILMOGRAFIA
Angelo Novi fotografo di scena (doc., 1992), Promessi sposi (doc., 1993), Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore (doc., 1995), Viento ‘e Terra (1996), Il faro (2000), Non è giusto (2001), Pianeta Tonino (2002), Il resto di niente (2004), Il pranzo di Natale (2011), Oggi insieme, domani anche (2013), La pazza della porta accanto (mm, doc., 2013), Let’s Go (cm, doc., 2014), Oggi insieme domani anche (doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“Ever since I made Ogni sedia ha il suo rumore in 1995, I have always wanted to retrieve the precious unused footage from the encounter with Alda Merini. At the time, that material was entwined with Licia Maglietta’s performance, inevitably cutting out parts of the conversation with Alda Merini. This footage was recovered almost twenty years later thanks to the collaboration of Rai Cinema, becoming La pazza della porta accanto, which restores that extraordinary encounter in its entirety.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
Antonietta De Lillo
MONTAGGIO
Valeria Sapienza
MUSICA
Philippe Sarde, Ascanio Celestini
INTERPRETE
Alda Merini
PRODUZIONE
marechiarofilm
Antonietta De Lillo
MONTAGGIO
Valeria Sapienza
MUSICA
Philippe Sarde, Ascanio Celestini
INTERPRETE
Alda Merini
PRODUZIONE
marechiarofilm
