marc of love he still tries his hand at directing, after a few episodes of Gomorrah And The immortal. The documentary magical Naples (in theaters until December 7) is a film in which the actor feels completely free from the narrative mechanisms of the series Sky. He goes down the street where he meets the people, the beauties, the folklore and the legends of which the city is steeped.
In fact, don’t expect a classic documentary, D’Amore dares and takes us among the myths of Naples, in the underground tunnels, where it makes us hear the noise of the bombs of the past, and leads us among the dead. Indeed, it is said that under Naples there is a city that speaks to the city on the surfacebut only a few can hear those voices. magical Naples it is a journey between fantasy and realitybetween past and present, between baba and skeletons which date back to the times of the plague, between the beauties of art and mysteries, between staging and truth, comedy and horror.
magical Naples: the plot
Marco D’amore goes down the alleys of Naples looking for an answer to the question: why is Naples magical? It will be difficult to find. The actor and director questions people on the street and takes us to the well-known places in the city, such as the Fontanelle cemetery, Castel dell’Ovothe chapel of Veiled Christ, the Catacombs of San Gaudioso, Piazza del Plebiscitobut also tells us about the mysteries of Naples and its ghosts, the siren Partenopeof the egg of Virgil on which rests the Castle (dell’Ovo in fact) and also the entire city is said. There is also Pulcinella with its contradictions, characters from the past who suddenly come to life and the artistic beauties that do not show themselves, but magically breathe.
Marco D’amore leads us into the legend of Naples thanks to the help of the staging, he slips into the underground passages where talk to the dead, with the other side of the place where he was born. The actor and director enjoys playing between sacred and profane, between science and magicbetween history and fantasy. An unusual journey full of contrasts that perhaps will make you understand the elusive soul of Naples.
Marco D’Amore and Pulcinella.
Naples like New York
«Francesco Ghiaccio and I have decided to tell stories Naples through commonplaceSee Naples and then die”. We started from here – he explains Mark D’Amore from the Turin Film Festival, where he premiered the documentary – we tried to tell an open-air stage to then go underground, in an incredible city carved into the tuff where we met stories from which the Neapolitan myths were born».
«Taking to the streets after the Covid period it was like reconciling me with the city – declares the director – I think Naples is a kind of European New Yorkthere is something that unites them: too New York in the 70s and 80s she was famous not for the mainstream, but for certain short stories underground». Naples continues to live on these stories. “When you grow up on these streets with the music and the voices that won’t let you go it’s as if the city were giving you a gift – continues D’Amore – you’ll be influenced by it for life. After telling the dark soul of him with Gomorrah I needed to go back to the historic center and talk to the Neapolitans».
Marco D’amore and the new project on Naples with Toni Servillo
The actor of Gomorrah he made his directorial debut with a few episodes of the series and with the film The immortal, which takes place between the fourth and fifth season. But it is with magical Naples that D’Amore felt «free from certain grammar and dogmas of the story that in the series I was forced to follow – he explains – with the documentary I finally let go of the marbles: for me cinema must feed on any language. In magical Naples there is the documentary genre mixing with comedy sketch, horror and dreams. The cinema must not have chains. I hope it is a viaticum for my future ».
Viaticum that will soon bring Marco D’Amore still in Naples where the last tile of a will direct trilogy Neapolitan. In fact, in February the filming of his new project entitled Caracas with Tony Servillo. Will we discover a new face of the city?
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