THE LUNCH OF FRANCIS by Pasquale Scimeca and Luca Capponi is a documentary film in some ways classic and with a secular outlook. Out of competition at the 38th edition of the Turin Film Festival, in reality the film has as its core the chronicle of a lunch of Pope Francis among the poor of the Mission of Hope and Charity in Palermo, in September 2018. series of interviews of people assisted in this center, of volunteers who work at the Mission of Hope and Charity, and archive footage on poverty, war, migration and on the increasingly deep-rooted relationship of the Church with other religions. And all this in the name of a sentence from the Pope said at the beginning of the film as an incipit: “How I would like a poor Church for the poor”.
Among the many themes of IL LUNCH DI FRANCESCO, an Arbash production with Rai Cinema, beyond poverty, marginalization, even illness and prison, or rather the ‘waste’ of a well-being society that rejects pain. In addition to the unpublished images of the Pope eating with plastic provisions together with poor people from all over the world, many in the docu are the testimonies of these same poor that the Pope at one point describes as “the true bankers of this society because they are the only ones to give , compared to what they receive, a real interest “. “The nation state – Pope Bergoglio underlines in the film – is no longer able to procure the common good of its populations on its own. The way in which a nation welcomes migrants reveals its vision of human dignity and its relationship with ‘humanity”. While on prisons he always says in Palermo: “Every time I enter a prison I ask myself ‘Why them and not me? Prison must not be a punishment, but a re-education. There is no punishment that is valid without hope.”
“I am profoundly a layman with a faith that comes and goes as many people do and my work – Pasquale Scimeca says to ANSA – is above all a gesture of love for Pope Francis who I believe is currently the only world leader capable of speaking to all, even to those who do not believe. A man who has managed to bring down the Church among all of us and to speak to the men of the third millennium, indicating to humanity paths in a moment of no return in which man is destroying the boat on which sails “. What impressed Scimeca about Pope Francis? “I was struck by his smiling eyes as he went to meet his beloved poor. And then the choice to be called Francesco – continues the director – is not a small thing, a commitment to represent a man who was for peace and had chosen to to be poor “. Why this title? “It comes from the fact that the Pope’s favorite film, as he has repeatedly stated, is BABETTE’S LUNCH. And this is because people’s lives come out around a convivial table. So why not call this work FRANCIS ‘LUNCH?” . Scimeca, born in 1956 in the province of Palermo and author, among other things, of PLACIDO RIZZOTTO, however, is already at work: “I’m about to make a film about judge Cesare Terranova, the first who had the courage to put the Corleonesi under investigation “.
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