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Claudio Amendola and Piero Pelù: “We teach our grandchildren the value of freedom”

Few years ago Claudio Amendola and Francesca Neri on the sofa at home they traced the lines of a hypothetical comedy set in the world of the funeral home. From March 24 on Prime Video arrives The cassamortari by Amendola, in fact, with Massimo Ghini, Lucia OconeAlessandro Sperduti, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Sonia Bergamasco e Piero Pelù, in the role of a rock star “hateful, false, unbearable, hysterical and stoned to the core”, describes the singer, who for the occasion also wrote the single Thirst for life.

We need to be ironic about everything that scares us and we don’t like it», The actor and director is convinced,« is the key solution. The phrase: “A laugh will bury you” sooner or later I’ll tattoo it somewhere because it represents my lifestyle. L’irony, sarcasm and lightness are the right key to tell tragedies“. Even in these times when tragedies pass the baton.

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Neither The cassamortari he jokes about the role of gravediggers, about those who do this job and the Pasti family is the most extreme representative of it. Giuseppe (Ghini) is greedy more than his father, his motto is: “Everyone must died, but only a few earn it”; the sister Maria (Ocone) takes all the widowers he meets to bed; Marco (Tognazzi) is the magician of thanatoaesthetics and speaks only with the corpses, while Matteo (Sperduti) manages with cynicism and bad taste i social media of the funeral society. When a rock star dies like Gabriel Archangel (Pelù) some good things will happen.

Comedy plays about black humor and with our flaws such as attachment to money, hypocrisy and abuse of social media. “I’ve never had them, but I fight them with this film,” says Claudio Amendola. “I don’t hate social media, I know how much they have changed our lives, I hate how people use them that show what they eat in the morning, afternoon and evening, and how much the son has shit. I find it abhorrent. Einstein’s discovery was also amazing, then they made it atomic bomb“.

“In the field of music we are a bit forced to use social media,” he explains Pelù, “One of the things I accepted this role for is the intelligent way in which the issue is handled. I believe the secret, as Maria says at one point in the film, it’s all in the dosage. We should try to measure the use of social networks as much as possible ».

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Source: Vanity Fair

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