PASSIONE (Special Presentation)

by John Turturro
Italy 2010, 95 min.

International Premiere

Synopsis: Journey to the end of a juke-box, the biggest in the world: Naples, a treasure chest of songs, indeed a homeland of songs, a legend which starts with the founding myth of muses.  Songs and singers, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are all protagonists of a film which crosses one the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world, one of the very few able to embody an idea of life.


The foreign, but not too foreign, glance of the Italian-American John Turturro traverses the city and its music, from the “Canto delle lavandaie del Vomero”, dated 1200, to “Napul’è” by Pino Daniele, conjuring distant stories and nearby myths.  The film journeys from nostalgic memories to reconstructions, from singing carousels to street voices, from the Neapolitan melodramas to video-clips, from the history of songs to the stories songs tell and hide.  

 
An exceptional orchestra for a repertoire which speaks of love, sex, jealousy, immigration, protest: the gems of the 1800s and the last modern classics of the 1900s are in the hands of the conductor Turturro – serious and yet playful -- who, with a complicit and curious glance, is looking for the poetic reference of tunes, of their ability to represent the world and travel it, thanks to their substantial global essence: Neapolitan but international.

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