With Sergio Castellitto, the 60th edition of the Pesaro Film Festival has officially opened in a very important year for the city Italian Capital of Culture 2024.
A special edition that could only open with a special guest like Castellitto who decided to celebrate the premieres at the Pesaro International Film Festival 20 candles of his most important film, “Don’t Move”, which consecrated his sentimental and professional partnership with his wife and writer Margaret Mazzantini. But not only.
Winner of four Nastri D’Argento and two David di Donatello (with Penelope Cruz as Best Actress and Castellitto himself as Best Actor), “Don’t move” was a real watershed as he told the audience present in Piazza del Popolo: “Basically, I started being a director because Margaret wrote the books. Even though this is my second film it is and will remain my film. I may have made seven in total, maybe I’ll make a few more if we find some money” she smiles “but this is my film because marks the beginning of a human, loving and writing journey with Margaret“.
Sergio Castellitto spoke with strong emotion and admiration about the synergistic work with his partner Mazzantini: “When you and I talk about stories, between cinema and literature, we are actually talking about life. I have the privilege of being able to work with an artist who has this ability to bring together scandal and pity. Because of this, I can’t look at our first film together as something foreign. I live it, it’s like looking at my own life“.
Between coincidences and cases of life (such as the fortune of having received the magnificent soundtrack “Un senso” by Vasco Rossi, winner of a Silver Ribbon), as a gift, Castellitto also said with amusement that he initially thought of John Malkovich for this role, “a superior, sensational actor. And then the actor prevailed and I said to myself: ‘I’ll give it to him, I’ll do it myself!’
Finally, pwords of profound admiration for his son Pietro who took his first steps in the world of cinema with this film: “The children one them but for natural biological rebound. They are your children: you love them. But it doesn’t mean that you love a person and also respect them, they are two profoundly different things. With Pietro there is love and also esteem and I think this is already a nice prize.”
There the Pesaro Film Festival continues until June 21st with other exceptional guests. Among these, the director Luca Guadagnino who will receive the Pesaro 60 Special Prize, Ficarra and Picone, Franco Maresco, Jasmine Trinca, Valentina Lodovini, Enzo D’Alò.
by Raffaela Mercurio
