Marco Olivieri Knows Cinema Genius When He Sees It.
Reading Marco Olivieri’s painstaking tribute to one of Italy’s finest and most important authors and directors I thought two things: 1) I wish my Italian was better, and 2) Olivieri and I had shared a vision.
I saw it when I interviewed Roberto Andò this past summer. As a relatively inexperienced interviewer, I asked questions that I wanted to know the answers to and hoped that somehow I’d come up with something that would be of interest to others. But as Andò spoke, I was mesmerized. “This is an extraordinary man,” I remember thinking. “This is the future of Italian cinema.”
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Journalist and scholar Marco Olivieri sees it too. In La Memoria Degli Altri (The Memory of the Others), rigorously examines Andò’s amazing career from his first feature-length film, Diaro Senza Date (Diary without dates) in 1995 to his latest and best, Viva La Libertà, starring Toni Servillo.
“In the cinema of Roberto Andò, memory is a lighthouse in the darkness,” writes Andò. “Andò continues to tell about the angles less visible from existence, but a little more ironically and allusively.”
For lovers of Italian films as well as those who are looking for a reason to once again believe in the Italian film industry, La Memoria Degli Altri: Il Cinema di Roberto Andò is an important confirmation that Italy is back in the film game.
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