Paolo Taviani signs his first film without his brother Vittorio (passed away in 2018). Leonora Farewellthe only Italian title in competition at Berlinale and in the rooms from February 17, it is dedicated to Vittorio and tells of the daring transport of Pirandello’s ashes after his death. It was 1936 when Pirandello he died leaving written that he was burned and then dispersed, “but if this cannot be done, let it be the cinerary urn brought to Sicily and walled up in some rough stone in the Girgenti countryside”. The journey from Rome to Agrigento was not a walk, the special plane carrying the ashes did not leave because the passengers decided to get off when they knew they were traveling with a dead man.
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The transport by train followed where the delegate of the Municipality of Agrigento (Fabrizio Ferracane) risked losing the urn. Once she arrived in Sicily it took another 15 years before her final burial. Paolo Taviani takes us to the Italy of the time through fiction and black and white images taken from neorealistic films.
“I wanted to pay homage to neorealisma piece of cinema that has told Italy better than the repertoire, with greater truth “, is convinced the director who was already the winner at Belino in 2012, together with his brother, with the masterpiece Cesare must die. «The truth of the repertoire does not match the truth of our cinema, the neorealism represents one of the highest moments of culture world, not only of our country. I wanted that truth to reach the viewer through this richness ».
Fabrizio Ferracane in a scene from Leonora Farewell by Paolo Taviani. Photo by Umberto Montiroli.
Taviani he is not satisfied with concluding the film with the construction of the funeral monument to Pirandello, but with the transposition of Nail, the latest tale of the Nobel Prize. “It is his most tragic tale», Reveals the director,« the author has left life with so much inner pain ». Pirandello’s journey through the urns and probably also Nailthey were to become an episode of the movie Kaos of 1984, then everything vanished. Vittorio had written a transposition that his brother has now decided to rewrite.
In the last part of Leonora Farewell, dedicated to Nail, color replaces black and white and from Sicily we move to an Italian restaurant in New York, where a tragic event occurs: a boy kills a little girl with a nail. Paolo Taviani still dwells on the theme of death and the inexorable passage of time. Once again Paul seems to be addressing his brother, calling him, evoking him, greeting him, remembering him.
Source: Vanity Fair
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