A pair of actors and comic authors who have nothing to envy of the previous dedications made to Liliana Cavani, Mario Martone and Giuseppe Tornatore, for the value and merit of having brought to the screen a “microenvironmental comedy” which, like the title of the volume quote dedicated to them, makes you “seriously laugh”.
In the meeting with the press, the two actors, directors and now also producers, demonstrate how new and updated parameters exist today of that “Italian comedy” which knows how to capture vices and virtues, prejudices and clichés, not at all obvious, transforming them in an ironic and disruptive reflection that includes satire as constructive criticism and always very close to a profound analysis of our everyday life.
A bitter but biting satire, capable of undermining gender archetypes to strike at that sense of humanity that many have lost along the way. Rossini pizza? «It’s very good», they comment in chorus, “like your mayor”, they underline, recalling the meetings with the various mayors held during the planning of their “Daylight Saving Time”. «On the other hand, there is a great master like Aristophanes who in The Frogs, which we were lucky enough to interpret, was concerned with making people laugh in a process that then leads to a political discourse and criticism of the period. The comedian does nothing but deform reality and society to propose his own vision. If people leave the cinema asking themselves a question and questioning themselves, it is already a great result.”
From the bridge over the strait to TV via Paola Cortellesi
Both joke about the bridge over the strait, about the approach of the past and how thinking towards the south and Sicily has changed today. They talk about their success and how TV has changed their popularity for the better: «No competition, a way to make themselves known: today it happens with TV series that open up curiosity to go to the cinema». And Paola Cortellesi recalls the presence of two comic authors at the exhibition: «Prejudice about comedy has always been there, from Aristophanes to now, but we have examples, let’s think of two greats like Troisi and Benigni. We laugh and we cry, the prejudice lies in the people.” And after Pirandello they don’t discard the idea of an author like Camilleri: «we met him once on stage and we seemed like a trio: his irony is very close to us, not only due to geographical origin». Camilleri was from Agrigento while Ficarra and Picone are from Palermo.
The International New Cinema Festival starts again today with the first appointment at 10 am. Screening of “Emergency in the Mediterranean Sea: Life Support on the Frontlines” (Italy, 2024, 20’43”) by Francesca Tosarelli. Followed by a panel on the activities of Search and rescue in the Mediterranean of Emergency. The director and Roberto Maccaroni, clinical operation manager migration of Emergency, will be present.
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