AND for 29 years that Laura Pausini he had the idea of telling himself in a film. He found the right moment during the first lockdown and from April 7 on Prime Video you will see materialize Laura Pausini – Nice to meet you by Ivan Cotroneo. A journey through images that tells the Pausini with his achievements and awardswith her songs and fans, but also with her daughter Paola, her husband Paolo, family and close friends.
Above all, you will see her wondering: What would my life have been like without the victory in Sanremo in 1993? Laura sees what one is materializing imagined in these long years: would open a pottery shop in his village of Solarolo, he would sing in a piano bar as he did with his father aged 8 to 18, he would have thrilled not stadium audiences but who would be in front of her, and he would have had a son named Marcello.
Laura Pausini – Nice to meet you: the plot
Ivan Cotroneo followed Laura Pausini for a whole year, between Italy and America, between Rome and his native country, meeting friends, parents and family members. The journey is in the life of the pop star that she has sold in the world beyond 70 million albumswho has won any prize (she was also nominated last year at the Oscar with the song I do).
The story starts from the emotion and the victory of the Golden Globe in 2021 and go back to that evening of 1993 when Sanremo wonand even earlier when Laura he sang in the piano bars with father Fabrizio or when he did his homework at night and listened to Spandau Ballet. The real life of the Pausini renowned singer alternates with the life of the same Laura (plays herself) imagining her life if she hadn’t won the festival. Would I have been happy? Would I have sung anyway? He wonders.
It would have been the same girl anyway: “Combative, simple, dreamer and art lover. If I hadn’t become a singer I would have done the architect or the painter of ceramicsnot the pharmacist as my mother would have liked, ”she says.
Laura Pausini: her daughter Paola and the difficulty of getting pregnant
The artist tells himself in totospeaks of his own moments of glory (the prizes, the crowd in the stadiums, etc.), of the birth of daughter Paola and of difficulty staying pregnant. “I was in a lot of pain and blamed my luck as a singerperhaps I had had too much from a professional point of view – he confesses in the film – then I wrote Heavenly and in 2013 Paola was born ».
“I felt flying and completehis birth made me understand why I live and made me change many things – he says – she is my helm. She decides my rhythms ». Even those of the next album which is not ready yet. “I can’t finish it after two years, it’s the first time this happens to me – she says – I am influenced by what is happening andto my daughter watching me“.
Laura Pausini with her husband and daughter. (Amazon)
Pausini: “Fame doesn’t make you feel fulfilled and the importance of losing”
“I’ve never dreamed of becoming famousit was enough for me to play in a piano bar, there wasn’t frenzy of fame as it is today – says the singer – the likes worry me. With this film I want to explain to my daughter and especially to the younger generations that the important thing is real lifethat aa career is made anyway even if you have a piano bar and live on it“.
“The film is not a whim and / or a self-celebration – Laura continues during the meeting with the journalists – it’s a journey introspective which can stimulate us to look inside ourselves. Anyone will have wondered at least once: “What would my life have been like if I hadn’t taken this path?”
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Through this story, the singer wants to send a message: “Fame or awards don’t make you feel fulfilled. When we reach the end of our life we will ask ourselves the most important question: “Were we happy?”. At that moment there will be no audience giving you the votewe will be alone and we will give the vote ».
In the film’s finale we see Laura in Los Angeles at the Oscars ceremony: “It was a great lesson for my daughter not to have taken that award – explains Laura – in life it is important to win and losewe must be equally proud. Today young people are not educated to defeat, this is a mistake and a big problem“.
The homage to the brother that Laura never met
“What I definitely wanted to be even if I didn’t become the singer I am is to be a motherLaura is sure. In the movie the child she imagines she has in the alternate life is called Marcello. A name not by chance.
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«The name my parents gave to the son they lost – she says – then I was born. If I had had a son I would have loved Marcello“.
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