(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 13 – Many hugs, smiles, affection, anecdotes, memories and jokes mixed with reflections on cinema and beyond, marked the meeting at the Troisi Cinema between Paolo Sorrentino and one of his ‘masters’, a free and unique filmmaker like Antonio Capuano, to whom the Roman theater restored and managed by the guys from Cinema America are dedicating a tribute. A bond that the one between the two directors, which has lasted for almost 25 years, was born in 1998, when Capuano asked the then 28-year-old Sorrentino to write with him the screenplay for Polvere di Napoli, which opened the retrospective today. “Antonio is not accommodating, he does not flatter you, and this was incredibly useful to me – explains the director of The Great Beauty in the hour dialogue moderated by Malcolm Pagani -. The relationship between us is based on conflict and I find it very beautiful and healthy. For example, when I tried to make my first film, The Extra Man and I told him a few scenes I had in mind, nothing suited him. He was also right, because I was saying the classic naivety of an aspiring director. And It was very important and fundamental for me, because it is not easy to find outspoken people like him. Antonio tests your strength and your ability to react “.
A point of reference also present as a character (played by Ciro Capano) in his latest film, the autobiographical E ‘was the hand of God (out November 24), chosen to represent Italy at the Oscars. “I reinvented it a bit, I tried to represent it, I don’t know how successful I was. It wasn’t important to copy Capuano but to render the way I perceive and remember it”. And “it’s the right thing to do” comments the friend. Capuano, who has not yet seen the film (“I’m waiting to watch it at the cinema”) was surprised by Sorrentino’s decision to tell about himself: “I didn’t expect Paolo to make such a real film, about the places and people who marked his itinerary … maybe – he says smiling – I should have written it with him “.
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