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TO 70 years since birth, Mario Martone celebrates Massimo Troisi in the docufilm Someone down there loves mebroadcast tonight at 21.15 on Sky Cinema Due and streaming on NOW. It is also being broadcast simultaneously on Sky Documentaries and is also available on Sky Documentaries from today Netflix.

Someone down there loves methe plot of the documentary film

Someone down there loves me is an all-round story, which wants to draw a portrait as complete as possible of the Neapolitan actor, disappeared on June 4, 1994. It is a journey into the world of Troisi, from Martone’s point of view. An exploration that takes viewers through the career and life of the actorfrom beginning to end. In the background, Naples, the city of both, an essential factor in the figure of Massimo Troisi.

The docufilm alternates scenes from his films as an actor or director with interviews with some faces of Italian cinema. Artists who have not known him, but who have been influenced by his work and who wish to give a testimony. Between these, Ficarra and Picone, Francesco Piccolo and Paolo Sorrentino.

Again, the memory of the critic Goffredo Fofi and of Michael Radford and Roberto Perpignani, respectively director and editor of the film The postman. The cast is completed by Federico ChiacchiariValeria Pezza, Demetrio Salvi, Mario Spada and also two actors of The Jackal, Fabio Balsamo and Aurora Leone.

In the docufilm, also the screenwriter Anna Pavignano

Someone down there loves me it also gives voice to Anna Pavignano, the screenwriter who had a professional partnership with Troisi which lasted from 1981 to 1994. I start again from three, Sorry for the delay, The ways of the Lord are finished, I thought it was love…instead it was a buggythe films signed until 1991.

Then it was the turn of The postmanreleased posthumously in 1994. With this film she has achieved a 1996 Oscar nomination in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay, together with Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi. Also, she starred in Sorry for the delay.

In the documentary film Martone meets her to reveal to the public the genesis of the creative processes that have given birth to cinematography of the Neapolitan actor and director. AND the journey becomes even more profound, thanks to precious unpublished materials available to the public, as well as personal testimony. In fact, the two were also romantically linked for eight years.

His personal memory of Troisi, then, also found space in From tomorrow I get up latereleased in 2009. It is an autobiographical novel in which he tells their love story by adapting it to the present. Imagining him, that is, still alive.

Mario Martone: «Someone loves me over there»

Guest of What’s the weather like on the occasion of the presentation at the Berlin Film Festival, Mario Martone declared: «I met him in ’92 and a great friendship was born. There was the idea of ​​making a film together. Cursed fate that tore it from us. Years later for me this documentary was an opportunity to make the film with Massimo that I could not make. I want to bring it to the screen.”

Regarding his judgment on Troisi, he explains: «I loved Massimo Troisi director. I obviously loved him as an actor, as a comedian, but it was a pity on him that he wasn’t rated as a director. So I wanted to tell it in these terms ». Again, he hints at a parallelism with François Truffaut.

“His films are centered around love, the dominant theme in the Nouvelle Vague, and politics.” Also, he points out that his cinematic language «is free. It has slow times, then accelerates, and is a continuous cinematic surprise, always rigorous. And in my opinion this freedom was the Nouvelle Vague».

Still, “It was revolutionary. I don’t know how many people he changed their lives, he gave strength by showing fragility and people identified with it ». And precisely on fragility he adds: «This fragility was a human trait that exploded on the screen. He managed to become very strong and had great communication skills. He invents a way of speaking, a unique phrasing. The other artist who had a unique phrasing is Edoardo De Filippo. Time changes, everything changes and Massimo rediscovers the great themes of the Neapolitan artistic tradition and throws them into the future».

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