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Salvatores and Scerbanenco
The two temples of noir |
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| 11/12/2012 |
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Film and literature, stories of yesterday and stories of today, the globalized mafia and the local mafia: tomorrow, once again, all the colors of noir come together at the Courmayeur Noir in Festival.
Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores will show sneak previews of his new project, Siberian Education, and reveal the secrets of the difficult shoot. He will be accompanied by the film’s Lithuanian stars Arnas Fedaravicius and Vilius Tumalavicius, and Nicolai Lilin, the author of the book on which the film is based. A real discovery, Fedaravicius and Tumalavicius play Kolima and Gagarin –rebellious, desperate young men struggling with a harsh coming of age and a mafia code of life imparted by guru John Malkovich. The event will be held at 12:45 pm at the Jardin de l’Ange.
While the life Salvatores depicts may be a “tale full of sound and fury signifying nothing” (to quote Shakespeare and Faulkner), Giorgio Scerbanenco’s Milan is also full of sound and fury, but with romantic tones that the harshness of today’s criminal underworld seems to have buried forever. In honor of the great author from Milan, tomorrow the Noir Festival will present the Giorgio Scerbanenco - La Stampa Prize to the Best Italian Noir Novel of the year. The shortlisted writers and their books are: Gian Mauro Costa (Festa di piazza), Massimo Gardella (Il male quotidiano), Luca Poldelmengo (L’uomo nero), Maurizio De Giovanni (Il metodo del coccodrillo) and Massimo Carlotto (Respiro corto).
The relationship between literature and cinema in Italy today will also be the theme of the third day of the 2012 Courmayeur Noir in Festival. In the form of the first Italian film in competition, Toni D’Angelo’s L’innocenza di Clara, and the presentation of Roberto Costantini’s new novel Alle radici del male, which will soon become a movie. As well as the Vedo Nero workshop (held in partnership with Istituto Luce Cinecittà), at which journalists, writers, producers, directors and screenwriters will analyze the unexpected cinematic boom of Italian noir. Over 70 noir films were released, developed or are in production in a single year: is this fleeting glory or the sign of a changing trend? Will noir be the next genre, after comedy, to save Italian cinema? An answer will be given tomorrow in the discussion coordinated by Giorgio Gosetti and Gaetano Savatteri.
The day’s four other films offer a variety of styles: Pierfancesco Li Donni’s auteur documentary Il secondo tempo looks at the tragedy of the mafia and its effect on Sicilians; Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers is a wild, dark comedy; master Lucas Belvaux offers pure, spectacular French noir in 38 Witnesses; and debut filmmaker Simone Gandolfo’s Evil Things, produced by actor-turned-producer Luca Argentero and starring Marta Gastini. |
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