All dressed in white
Two years
ago Ms. Rachael Maloney editor of Wallpaper* City Guides, a gigantic editorial
house about international tourism, included Genova into a very small bunch of 'must
see' selected destinations, for its authenticity and the great amount of things
to be seen.
Two years
ago Mr. Paolo Sorrentino was shooting 'La
Grande Bellezza' (The Great Beauty, winner of an Academy Award) and his main character,
journalist Jep Gambardella played by
Toni Servillo was dressed in a white elegant dress and hat, walking the streets
of Rome.
Two years
ago I was shooting 'bollezzumme' in Genova and in one scene I am walking the city’s
characteristic caruggi (small alleys) in a white elegant double-breasted dress
and a panama white hat
.
More than
two years ago I wrote a film project because Genova is 'an intriguing and multilayered reality which does not show easily its
treasures but has everything to conquer the world'. Those words are
not mine but by Ms. Maloney and they are very similar to the words I wrote in my
original project.
Until today
I never heard of Rachael Maloney and never met Paolo Sorrentino.
Those
artistic coincidences prove, once more, that ideas are floating in the air, in
the sky, in the minds of different people, who live miles away from each other,
but often they feel, imagine, and create similar visions. Because those visions
are very real and alive in that moment, so ideas are floating and creative
persons grab them as they float (the word ‘invent’ comes from the Latin in-venio, meaning to come in front, to
bump into.)
'Bollezzumme'
as a project and a film is in perfect timing and we finally are in the last
steps of the editing. The film is already good as it is in the 91’ cut made by
Adel Oberto in four months of brilliantly good work. But I did think that the
movie had to be an international one. And now Annette Kash is working in Los Angeles
at the final cut with real sincere enthusiasm.
“Genova has a good choice of cultural
attractions easily accessible, interesting architectural history, a lot of
places with good food, the possibility to move around by foot, strolling is the
best way to discover the beautiful cities". Again is Ms. Maloney writing. She could have
been the screenwriter of 'bollezzumme'!!!
Last but
not least, the number of clicks into the trailer on YouTube is, as I am
writing, 8.312.
Ciao from Michele!
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