Today’s event evening at the Cinema Corso in Piacenza with the screening of the film Zamoraanticipated by the director’s presentation Neri Marcorè, who will be in dialogue with Carlo Confalonieri. The event will begin at 8pm. The film Zamora is based on the novel of the same name written by Roberto Perrone, and is set in the Sixties. Walter Vismara is a thirty-year-old man who works as an accountant in a small factory in Vigevano. When the company he works for closes without warning, Walter will find a new job at another company in bustling Milan, where he will be under the supervision of his boss, Cavalier Tosetto. The latter has a fixation for football, forcing his employees to compete in a football competition once a week, which sees a challenge between bachelors and marrieds. Walter, who has no particular appreciation for football, immediately takes his stand in goal. This choice of his leads the engineer Gusperti to target him, sarcastically nicknamed him “Zamora”, in reference to the famous Spanish goalkeeper of the 1930s. Walter is therefore forced to endure Gusperti’s humiliations both on the pitch and in the office, which will then lead Walter to devise a plan to take revenge on Gusperti.
The appointment in Piacenza will be double for the famous actor and director, who at 9pm will be at the Teatro Municipale with the show “The Good News” (also repeated tomorrow 23 May), conceived as a sort of contemporary sacred representation that alternates and intertwines the songs of Fabrizio de André with the narrative passages taken from the apocryphal Gospels which the author himself was inspired by. Explicitly theatrical in nature, constructed almost in the form of a chamber opera, La Buona Novella is the author’s first concept album, with score and lyrics composed to give voice to many characters: Maria, Giuseppe, Tito the thief, the choir mothers, a carpenter, the people.
