Leonora addio

Leonora addio

2DORCS/ES12
Director:Paolo Taviani
Cast:Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker
Premiere:6. October 2022
Length:90 minutes
Genre:Drama

Director: Paolo Taviani  •  Cast: Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker, Nathalie Rapti Gomez, Claudio Bigagli, Roberto Herlitzka

Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he had shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, whose works the brotherly duo had previously adapted in 1984 (Kaos) and 1998 (You're Laughing). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright's vision, the film is not at all what it seems to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of the book's jealousy-laced plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather his ashes, which are transported from a crowded burial ground in Fascist Rome to his current permanent resting place in Sicily. The film takes us on a journey through post-war Italy and its filmed memories through newsreel footage, amateur films and fragments of neorealism. After we bury the master in Leonora Addio, the film switches gears from road movie to film adaptation, choosing a different Pirandello story - specifically, the last one written shortly before his death in 1936. From his farewell to the title to his return to the writer's last words. It's hard not to take this work - so free, yet so much a part of Taviani's world - as a moving fraternal farewell. A work that, like 2012's Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to help literature and history speak.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Length: 90 min

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 6. October 2022

Country of origin:

  • Italy

Director: Paolo Taviani  •  Cast: Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker, Nathalie Rapti Gomez, Claudio Bigagli, Roberto Herlitzka

Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he had shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, whose works the brotherly duo had previously adapted in 1984 (Kaos) and 1998 (You're Laughing). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright's vision, the film is not at all what it seems to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of the book's jealousy-laced plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather his ashes, which are transported from a crowded burial ground in Fascist Rome to his current permanent resting place in Sicily. The film takes us on a journey through post-war Italy and its filmed memories through newsreel footage, amateur films and fragments of neorealism. After we bury the master in Leonora Addio, the film switches gears from road movie to film adaptation, choosing a different Pirandello story - specifically, the last one written shortly before his death in 1936. From his farewell to the title to his return to the writer's last words. It's hard not to take this work - so free, yet so much a part of Taviani's world - as a moving fraternal farewell. A work that, like 2012's Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to help literature and history speak.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Year: 2022
Local premiere date: 6. October 2022

Country of origin:

  • Italy