Notebook is covering the Cannes Film Festival with an on going correspondence between critics Leonoardo Goi and Lawrence Garcia, and editor Daniel Kasman.Scarlet.Dear Danny, dear Lawrence,The blue-white-red smoke of the French Air Force aerobatic team is still smearing the sky as I begin typing, and for a moment there, as the planes packed the sky with noise to honor the Top Gun: Maverick premiere, I’ve had to pinch myself to remind me where I was. A welcome side effect of last year’s edition being held in mid-July was that the 75th Cannes Film Festival would take place only ten months later, but if there’s one thing the past two years have taught me is to handle my optimism and festival plans with caution. And yet, strolling around town on Day Zero, the eve of the fiesta, everything was right as I left it. The...
- 5/28/2022
- MUBI
Resembling more of a personal tribute than exhaustive biography, Pietro Marcello‘s Lucio Dalla documentary, “For Lucio,” takes its title as an invitation. A rambling eulogy that is just as often confusing as it is profound, Marcello’s wisp of a film (running less than 80 minutes) may be missing key context for those not already versed in the life and music of the politically-oriented Italian singer-songwriter. Still, for those with some awareness of Dalla — or even those willing to do some research on their own — Marcello’s tribute offers just enough nostalgia to seek out his music.
Continue reading ‘For Lucio’ Review: A Rambling Eulogy To The Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla [Berlin] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘For Lucio’ Review: A Rambling Eulogy To The Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla [Berlin] at The Playlist.
- 2/21/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
The director of 2019’s critically acclaimed Martin Eden returns with For Lucio, a slim, charming documentary about one of Italy’s premier post-war crooners. Lucio Dalla, born in Bologna in 1943, witnessed Italy’s recovery from the destruction of the second World War as his pastoral Bolognese childhood was replaced by rapid industrialization in a country that was painfully losing its social and cultural identity. It may be brief at 78 minutes, but this is a rewarding film, mostly pivoting on a series of interviews with the singer’s manager Tobia, who regales stories of Lucio from his early days hustling for gigs in Rome to a nationally renowned artist with a powerful social conscience.
A former child star, Lucio started on the Italian jazz scene as a clarinettist, only moving into singing because being in the band didn’t earn him enough money. “Singing wasn’t in my plans,” he says...
A former child star, Lucio started on the Italian jazz scene as a clarinettist, only moving into singing because being in the band didn’t earn him enough money. “Singing wasn’t in my plans,” he says...
- 3/8/2021
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
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