1 00:00:27,630 --> 00:00:34,450 I remember this first movie camera was a silma and the operator of the 2 00:00:34,450 --> 00:00:37,450 super cinema and I made these images. 3 00:00:38,730 --> 00:00:43,930 These fascinated me a lot images of fire with these figures, 4 00:00:44,130 --> 00:00:48,030 these black silhouettes, with these drummers who accompanied the vamps, 5 00:00:48,210 --> 00:00:50,870 with this deafening rhythmic sound. 6 00:00:51,910 --> 00:00:54,390 It was a shock. 7 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,440 I was really little when I did it those first images, I was 13 years old. 8 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,560 Of these reels I turned that one night, I made a 5-6 minute montage, 9 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:09,560 just that. 10 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:16,320 Then, in a second moment, I am asked why not do become 11 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:19,460 something more, and so everything was born rest. 12 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,870 Of course I was already at... sick, infected by cinema. 13 00:01:30,170 --> 00:01:36,710 But I had never looked inside a viewfinder through which 14 00:01:36,710 --> 00:01:41,250 tell, steal movements, things images. 15 00:02:22,670 --> 00:02:26,250 We could think of Sicily as a place where you can find any kind 16 00:02:26,250 --> 00:02:30,150 of contradiction and you will always find that everything has a foundation. 17 00:02:31,570 --> 00:02:37,870 But certainly the fact that it is an island had a huge influence on the 18 00:02:37,870 --> 00:02:43,710 ability to reason, but also perhaps on the ability to reason, if 19 00:02:43,710 --> 00:02:45,490 we want to simplify Pirandello. 20 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:53,120 What has always struck me is that in my opinion the island Being born in a 21 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:59,260 The island has accentuated the dreamy streak of the Sicilians. 22 00:02:59,460 --> 00:03:04,440 Being forced to imagine that what's on the other side of the 23 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:11,060 The horizon has greatly accentuated this visionary streak which is very important to me 24 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:12,560 close in some way. 25 00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:10,830 When here they planned the good and the ugly and bad, which was just before 26 00:04:10,830 --> 00:04:17,149 that I frequented the Cinema booth Capitol, there was such an influx of people 27 00:04:17,149 --> 00:04:22,250 who broke down the gate. The crowd broke down the gate, they went inside and 28 00:04:22,250 --> 00:04:24,950 they ruined everything because the crowd was such. 29 00:04:25,610 --> 00:04:29,290 People were still throwing fists back then to go to the cinema. 30 00:04:41,580 --> 00:04:44,160 That's what I wanted to tell with Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. 31 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:51,320 I wanted to talk about the fever of wanting being inside a movie theater 32 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,000 at a time when he didn't want to go there no one anymore. 33 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Avracadabra. 34 00:04:58,860 --> 00:05:00,420 I look the other way. 35 00:05:11,950 --> 00:05:18,610 Cinema is the time machine, a wonderful spaceship 36 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:23,930 that allowed you to learn about the world without going there to look for it. 37 00:05:24,150 --> 00:05:29,930 And this was extraordinary, especially for those born and raised in a centre 38 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:30,930 of the province. 39 00:05:33,950 --> 00:05:37,210 Telephone 091 90 33 44 40 00:05:46,820 --> 00:05:52,920 Bacheria is, at least for us Bacheresi, it is a particular country. 41 00:05:53,140 --> 00:05:58,560 Because Bacheria always has a character important for the whole world, not only 42 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,700 for the nation. 43 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,500 There's no shortage of one that the other comes out with. 44 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,720 We had Guttuso, the character important in the world. 45 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,160 When did Guttuso pass away? 46 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:15,930 Peppuccio came out, but we are there we were waiting for her because someone had to come 47 00:06:15,930 --> 00:06:16,930 person. 48 00:06:22,290 --> 00:06:22,810 Not 49 00:06:22,810 --> 00:06:29,630 yes 50 00:06:29,630 --> 00:06:35,990 can tell. The posters hanging they said thank you Peppuccio, thank you 51 00:06:35,990 --> 00:06:38,910 Peppuccio. They finally understood that what it was. 52 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:55,020 You know, deciding to make films, of become directors, in the bagheria dei 53 00:06:55,020 --> 00:07:00,920 early seventies, mid seventies, he was roughly as if he were a Milanese 54 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,220 dreamed of being a citrus grower. 55 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,400 Another consideration you might do, regarding illegal practices, 56 00:07:11,420 --> 00:07:15,840 is that if I hadn't mentioned this phenomenon, we are with Gianluigi, 57 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:17,640 persecuted, denounced. 58 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,800 According to the authorities, the bricklayers, construction would be completely 59 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,820 blocked. 60 00:07:25,820 --> 00:07:29,780 Especially in the 60s, or whatever in the years in which I began to 61 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:35,200 look around me, the cultural life of Bagheria was very intense. 62 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:42,400 Indeed, I must say that hand in hand with everything he has 63 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,540 ruined the landscape, speculation construction, the dark years. 64 00:07:48,090 --> 00:07:53,990 of Sicilian politics, there was one life, intense cultural activity. 65 00:07:56,630 --> 00:08:02,710 Therefore Bagheria is the town of Buttitta, one of the best, one of the greatest 66 00:08:02,710 --> 00:08:09,430 dialect poets of the world, the country of Guttuso, the town of Ferdinando Sciano, 67 00:08:09,430 --> 00:08:11,250 one of the greatest photographers in the world. 68 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:16,950 But I could mention many others who then did not become famous. And then 69 00:08:16,950 --> 00:08:22,470 the great tradition of the great craftsmanship, Bagariotto, the school of 70 00:08:22,470 --> 00:08:29,030 Ducato brothers, the art of decoration of the carts, a 71 00:08:29,030 --> 00:08:31,290 extraordinary heritage. 72 00:08:51,630 --> 00:08:56,350 There was, there was a great vitality, always 73 00:08:56,350 --> 00:09:03,290 frustrated by the insensitivity of those governed this 74 00:09:03,290 --> 00:09:07,090 country, so in this country it is always It was difficult to do an exhibition, it is 75 00:09:07,090 --> 00:09:10,370 It has always been difficult to provide resources to artists, it's always been difficult. 76 00:09:10,890 --> 00:09:16,470 However, we still managed to produce it, art in some way. 77 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,180 I brought the car with me photographic just as if it were a 78 00:09:24,180 --> 00:09:25,180 garment. 79 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,700 You don't leave the house in the morning unless you put on a pair of shoes. Then maybe not 80 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:36,480 you can have a luxurious one, a not good one, but you can't go out without shoes. Me 81 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,200 I didn't leave the house without the car photographic. 82 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,660 All of mine are in those photos friends, my adversaries. 83 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:26,400 The people I love and have loved. 84 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,540 And the ones I didn't know or don't have wanted to love. 85 00:10:35,020 --> 00:10:37,500 People who shook my hand and loved me smile. 86 00:10:40,940 --> 00:10:47,280 And those who only looked at me, 87 00:10:47,340 --> 00:10:49,460 without saying anything. 88 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,040 thousands, thousands, thousands of faces. 89 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:59,840 It is said about this strange way of his write your own diary 90 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,540 through the images of all those that he encountered in his life. C 91 00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:08,700 'it's a bit of a transfiguration of a personal experience. 92 00:11:16,189 --> 00:11:20,170 That mountain of photographs on the desk clearly was a picture 93 00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:24,930 which gave me a lot, was congenial to me. 94 00:11:25,730 --> 00:11:32,470 And so among all the photos that he browses there are also two 95 00:11:32,470 --> 00:11:34,650 which really concern me personally. 96 00:11:34,970 --> 00:11:38,750 One is actually a photo I took, which is seen for a fraction of seconds, 97 00:11:38,750 --> 00:11:40,850 which is a close-up of Guttuso. 98 00:11:42,830 --> 00:11:47,750 and another is a family photo where there's my grandfather and my father placed there 99 00:11:47,750 --> 00:11:48,110 inside 100 00:11:48,110 --> 00:11:58,850 when 101 00:11:58,850 --> 00:12:04,150 I was shooting the new cinema We had decided on Paradise like this for fun 102 00:12:04,150 --> 00:12:09,790 to make it appear just that the day in which he was to make this appearance 103 00:12:11,030 --> 00:12:13,650 He felt bad, very bad that he couldn't do it. 104 00:12:14,630 --> 00:12:17,450 Then he gave him the script of The Man of the Stars and said to him, look, choose 105 00:12:17,450 --> 00:12:20,710 a character. And he chose that of the doctor. He told him, look, this 106 00:12:20,710 --> 00:12:25,270 it's difficult. No, he's the only smart one who can understand who Gio Morelli is 107 00:12:25,270 --> 00:12:29,090 someone who makes fun of people. Good morning, I'm Doctor Mistretta, 108 00:12:29,090 --> 00:12:32,370 a serious patient in San Vincenzo. Me would you give a ride? But God forbid 109 00:12:32,370 --> 00:12:33,370 go up. Thank you. 110 00:12:33,730 --> 00:12:36,730 The politician and the intellectual of family was my father. 111 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:44,140 a little for his business. Then you know, in those years, in the fifties, in 112 00:12:44,140 --> 00:12:50,640 Sicily, dealing with politics, being communist in Sicily over the years 113 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,580 fifty was hard, it wasn't easy. 114 00:12:53,980 --> 00:13:00,200 Oh yes, poor deceived, deceived by everyone, from God, from the State, from him 115 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,100 men. And if it allows you, fool yourself from you too, Doctor Morelli. 116 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:05,800 But as if... 117 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:09,860 What do you mean, doctor, sorry, but I am a serious professional. 118 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,200 I know you are a professional cinema. 119 00:13:13,420 --> 00:13:18,320 I didn't want to offend her. But let's put it on a moral and social level. 120 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:23,980 It seems right to her to promise wealth and glory to these poor people who have 121 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:27,900 need work, bread, tranquility, progress and justice? 122 00:13:53,330 --> 00:13:58,570 Those of my father's generation they strongly believed that through 123 00:13:58,570 --> 00:14:04,470 politics could change things, the fate of one could be changed 124 00:14:04,470 --> 00:14:07,130 company. Today no one believes that anymore. 125 00:14:08,270 --> 00:14:15,230 Life is not as you saw it at cinema. Life is more 126 00:14:15,230 --> 00:14:16,230 difficult. 127 00:14:17,750 --> 00:14:19,110 But here. 128 00:14:20,270 --> 00:14:21,310 Go back to Rome. 129 00:14:21,970 --> 00:14:24,170 You are young, the world is yours. 130 00:14:26,190 --> 00:14:27,910 And I'm old. 131 00:14:29,010 --> 00:14:30,990 I don't want to hear you talk anymore. 132 00:14:32,210 --> 00:14:34,070 I want to hear about you. 133 00:14:45,070 --> 00:14:52,030 I came to Rome immediately after return to Naples from 134 00:14:52,030 --> 00:14:58,630 clandestinity, I was in for a year Tuscany clandestine and then I returned to 135 00:14:58,630 --> 00:15:03,630 Naples in September 44, I started traveling immediately, in short 136 00:15:03,630 --> 00:15:05,230 I settled in Rome though. 137 00:15:05,590 --> 00:15:10,890 I felt the weight of the prejudice in my will. 138 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:18,940 doing something that wasn't Sicilian at the beginning it weighed a lot on me 139 00:15:18,940 --> 00:15:25,700 I remember I was in a lot of pain 140 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:32,240 this is when I made my first film for example some who saw it then the 141 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:36,960 cinema is a courtyard you get everything but how did he do this so young he didn't 142 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,420 done the experimental center has not made the author 143 00:15:40,270 --> 00:15:47,210 no one has made a film like this but it is Sicilian this thing hurt me 144 00:15:47,210 --> 00:15:48,210 it hurt me 145 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:37,420 The south is... 146 00:16:38,190 --> 00:16:45,190 a land of contrasts and these contrasts translate into stories 147 00:16:45,190 --> 00:16:52,110 many times also full of passion, 148 00:16:52,110 --> 00:16:53,590 full of passion. 149 00:16:53,810 --> 00:17:00,150 These realities are certainly striking very there 150 00:17:00,150 --> 00:17:01,710 a narrator's fantasy. 151 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:20,640 I have always associated the cinema of Francesco Rosi with my lesson 152 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:26,240 father, which was to always seek to understand how things happened 153 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:32,280 truly and never make judgements hurry and superficial before you have 154 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,220 I really understood how things are. 155 00:17:53,070 --> 00:17:59,530 There is a well-defined context, within which good and evil 156 00:17:59,530 --> 00:18:01,730 they are clear. 157 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:06,070 Cinema inevitably, and not just the cinema, he is attracted. 158 00:18:10,450 --> 00:18:17,050 It doesn't exist anywhere in the world 159 00:18:17,050 --> 00:18:20,190 such a small land. 160 00:18:20,490 --> 00:18:25,730 like Sicily, to have inspired everything the cinema that inspired Sicily. 161 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:08,400 12 hours of hard work in the bones and not at home they don't even report enough 162 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:09,480 so as not to die of hunger. 163 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:15,800 Yet the goals, when they were thrown come on, they were full. 164 00:19:41,260 --> 00:19:42,580 Sleep, dear Chevalet. 165 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:46,220 A long sleep, that's what i Sicilians want. 166 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:49,980 And they will always hate all of those who will want to wake them up. 167 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:53,440 Even if it's to bring them more wonderful gifts. 168 00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:59,440 And as we have already said, I sincerely doubt it may the new kingdom have many gifts 169 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:00,620 for us in his luggage. 170 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:08,820 With us every event, even the most violent, it is an aspiration to oblivion. 171 00:20:15,110 --> 00:20:21,730 Our sensuality, the desire for obligation, the gunshots, the stab wounds 172 00:20:21,730 --> 00:20:27,870 ours, the desire for death, ours laziness, the penetrating sweetness of 173 00:20:27,870 --> 00:20:34,830 our sorbets, the desire to voluptuous immobility, that is, still 174 00:20:34,830 --> 00:20:35,830 of death. 175 00:20:56,810 --> 00:21:01,370 This villa has to do with a rope particular of the Sicilians, the rope 176 00:21:01,370 --> 00:21:03,010 crazy, as Pirandello called her. 177 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:09,370 Certainly here you can't help but think about this world, in this rich era, 178 00:21:09,370 --> 00:21:10,370 so strange. 179 00:21:12,230 --> 00:21:16,910 And of course you can't help but think too to the leopard cat, of course. 180 00:21:22,670 --> 00:21:24,250 It was said that women 181 00:21:26,050 --> 00:21:32,690 pregnant who had stared at the images of the monsters of Villa Paragonia 182 00:21:32,690 --> 00:21:38,750 they would give birth to deformed children and others This is what people really believed 183 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:43,050 and there are traces of this in my first documentary 184 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,960 I found myself with 10 thousand lire in my pocket, back then I bought three reels of film 185 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,060 Super 8. What could I do with three reels of Super 8 film? I couldn't think 186 00:21:58,060 --> 00:22:00,200 to a theme, to a text, to a screenplay. 187 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:02,040 I shot what I found. 188 00:22:02,380 --> 00:22:06,240 Then after a few months I found myself another reel or two more and I was spinning 189 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,240 other things. 190 00:22:07,260 --> 00:22:13,360 And sometimes these fragments then ended to attract each other thematically and I did 191 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:14,700 guide by images. 192 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:21,560 with this sedimentation system, of fragmentation, almost of path to 193 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,080 blind man's fly. In short, I followed that what was happening. 194 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,780 The death scene in Bagheria is almost the admission of the lack of a 195 00:22:30,780 --> 00:22:34,800 subject, is the admission, the immediate declaration of the deficiency 196 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:40,460 of a narrative center. It was only one collection of images linked to one 197 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:41,720 simple emotion, 198 00:22:44,810 --> 00:22:50,930 I lived by walking around the streets of my country between 2 and 5 am 199 00:22:50,930 --> 00:22:56,750 afternoon of August 1972 e what I found around was this, 200 00:22:56,830 --> 00:22:59,890 so there wasn't an argument, no I wanted to make a speech. 201 00:23:00,910 --> 00:23:07,290 Obviously in this void, in this desolation, perhaps I found an emotion, 202 00:23:07,290 --> 00:23:12,110 a feeling that is very close to melancholy of the Sicilians and the Bagarioti 203 00:23:12,110 --> 00:23:13,110 also. 204 00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:26,030 I found myself, without knowing it and without wanting to, to make a documentary 205 00:23:26,030 --> 00:23:29,410 allegorical, probably, on a feeling. 206 00:23:38,890 --> 00:23:44,370 But I brought Renato Guttuso here, me I remember very well, in '82, because it was there 207 00:23:44,370 --> 00:23:46,190 the year of his seventieth birthday. 208 00:23:49,230 --> 00:23:53,850 He said Villa Paragonia and the carts Sicilians are at the origin of mine 209 00:23:53,850 --> 00:23:59,870 painting. Plus he told it to me like a place linked to experiences 210 00:23:59,870 --> 00:24:03,370 very sentimental and adolescent important in his life. 211 00:24:04,470 --> 00:24:07,730 I was very young, I was 14 years old. 212 00:24:08,810 --> 00:24:13,250 I had fallen in love with a lady who he lived in Villa Paragonia, which he lived in 213 00:24:13,250 --> 00:24:14,250 here. 214 00:24:14,590 --> 00:24:16,250 A very beautiful woman. 215 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:23,830 that fascinated me very much, it was a abstract love, what can it be? 216 00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:29,630 'love, a loving feeling of a 14 or 15 year old boy towards a woman 217 00:24:29,630 --> 00:24:35,290 of 26, 27, I don't know how many, it was anyway very beautiful, these are things you don't 218 00:24:35,290 --> 00:24:42,170 they forget. But I remember his sadness in 219 00:24:42,170 --> 00:24:43,490 find... 220 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,400 missing elements compared to the last one time that there had been, or elements that had 221 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,700 were meanwhile further worn out. 222 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,880 Somehow I find myself too this, because you leave a place 223 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:04,360 like this and for many years fixed in the your memory of things as you have them 224 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:09,560 leave. Then you come back and find that not I'm just like that, there's one missing there 225 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,860 head, a hand is missing there, a hand is missing there vase, it's missing... 226 00:25:14,090 --> 00:25:16,190 Got it? Then it's terrible. 227 00:25:28,490 --> 00:25:33,910 I spent my childhood and I played, I came here to play in the bar of... I was 10, 228 00:25:34,190 --> 00:25:36,130 12 years, 13 years. 229 00:25:36,670 --> 00:25:39,130 So it's a place full of memories. 230 00:25:39,850 --> 00:25:43,990 very beautiful also that they always become more melancholy. 231 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:10,500 Thank you. 232 00:27:36,210 --> 00:27:41,610 The documentary he made is there testimony that will remain 233 00:27:41,610 --> 00:27:44,490 eternal in the future. 234 00:27:44,690 --> 00:27:47,270 It's the only testimony. 235 00:27:47,470 --> 00:27:54,090 In fact many of the characters he has resumed 236 00:27:54,090 --> 00:27:59,390 while they worked, old craftsmen, they have all disappeared. 237 00:27:59,990 --> 00:28:01,950 Most. 238 00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:18,870 I made the cart which is my first documentary, so to speak, thought out, that is 239 00:28:18,870 --> 00:28:20,790 my first thematic documentary. 240 00:28:22,090 --> 00:28:28,990 I found the typical passion, the passion sanguine of the Sicilians, the imagination, 241 00:28:28,990 --> 00:28:35,610 the pleasure of the show, the pleasure extreme things 242 00:28:35,610 --> 00:28:37,630 and I also found violence. 243 00:29:32,110 --> 00:29:38,750 And maybe it's this strange alchemy that make this country 244 00:29:38,750 --> 00:29:40,150 so particular. 245 00:29:41,290 --> 00:29:44,270 They will also all be poor deceived, my doctor, but since I've been here 246 00:29:44,270 --> 00:29:45,570 they're just crazy like that. 247 00:29:45,890 --> 00:29:49,630 And bandits, and fanatics, and policemen, and criminals, and spy revolutionaries, and what? 248 00:29:49,850 --> 00:29:53,110 And they never stand still, right? They have it always something to do and would like 249 00:29:53,110 --> 00:29:55,510 do another. What the fuck them do they work to do? Sorry if I express myself 250 00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:57,570 like this. But what is Sicily? But what is it? 251 00:29:58,030 --> 00:29:59,030 Penton that can... 252 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,840 And we don't understand why, sorry! But tell me her why! 253 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:09,960 The telling, even if allegorically, the impossibility of 254 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,020 tell the Sicilians as they really are I am. 255 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,200 Now, this is the idea I liked of the film. 256 00:30:16,140 --> 00:30:20,380 These characters who tell their stories truly like cinema never has 257 00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:24,780 been able to do it, or very rarely, and the inevitability... 258 00:30:25,050 --> 00:30:29,510 of the failure of their story, the ensure that this testimony of theirs goes 259 00:30:29,510 --> 00:30:33,610 to end up nowhere, inside a car from grip that has no film. 260 00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:36,910 So, Dazzu, tell me what you want. 261 00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:40,110 In front of this you can all speak freedom, huh? 262 00:30:43,590 --> 00:30:47,010 I'm a shepherd, I can do this say. 263 00:30:49,190 --> 00:30:50,970 Perfect, he speaks like a shepherd. 264 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,600 The great thing about being a pastor is that with the stars there is reason. 265 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,040 The villagers never cut them at the stars. 266 00:31:02,740 --> 00:31:07,120 Instead, the shepherd in the countryside, at night, it's different. 267 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,920 Sometimes I look at the stars and talk. But is there really a world? 268 00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:15,020 I can't believe the world exists. 269 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,540 They are plodding. 270 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,320 I even think about it when I cut a rabbit killed. 271 00:31:21,420 --> 00:31:25,900 The eye always seems alive and cuts me like when you cut a painting. 272 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,760 I once saw a painting. 273 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,440 Yet I was moving one way on the other, he always cut to me. 274 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,580 Even from the rough pecorino. 275 00:31:49,230 --> 00:31:53,730 I had a bizarre, broad imagination, intuitive. 276 00:31:54,570 --> 00:32:01,470 The agitated forest of spring and colored than mine 277 00:32:01,470 --> 00:32:08,450 strong sensitivity did not represent the great city far away, roaring, 278 00:32:08,570 --> 00:32:11,550 which I didn't know at the time. 279 00:32:12,270 --> 00:32:18,270 There is the ringing of the sheep, me like this, limping, I wrote. 280 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:25,460 trees, tall buildings in a row, windows green with leaves, 281 00:32:25,620 --> 00:32:30,660 convested blue with clear sky and peaceful. 282 00:32:32,780 --> 00:32:39,600 Bare branches, antennas, lightning rod tops, domes 283 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:46,560 shadows, electric wires, sunlight, insects, 284 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:52,820 humanity. when they come on bial aspects 285 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:59,560 long black funeral of ants follows the body of one 286 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:06,040 mosquito heroically fell while there one 287 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:12,600 procession of midges follows three monic grasshoppers that bring in 288 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,280 high the holy grain towards 289 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:22,440 the captivity of a grandiose oak who agitates campaign with him. 290 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,580 The only things I could do with a movie camera and that little bit of film 291 00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:54,640 that I could scrape together was what it was happening around me. 292 00:33:54,860 --> 00:34:01,100 And since I was attracted to things that they have to do with spaces, with the 293 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:05,920 crowd, with the dynamism, etc., I was therefore attracted by strikes, by 294 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,860 religious processions, from all that somehow... 295 00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:15,100 it presented itself to me in the form of show a show that you don't 296 00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:19,800 you had to direct that you shouldn't organize that existed in itself and that 297 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,340 you just had to resume 298 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:02,880 It's interesting to understand how the 299 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,500 celebration of a patron saint can be the excuse to understand how 300 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:13,340 lives in a community, how he behaves the people, taking into account that the 301 00:35:13,340 --> 00:35:19,940 sometimes external behavior of men 302 00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:23,760 ends up being significant by far deeper things. 303 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:47,960 In Sicilian culture sometimes the non 304 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,540 said is much more important than said. 305 00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:55,480 This has a lot to do with secrecy, of course. 306 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:02,660 I am fascinated by the fact... 307 00:36:03,210 --> 00:36:07,930 From the ability to intuit, to understand each other of the Sicilians with a gesture, with one 308 00:36:07,930 --> 00:36:08,930 look. 309 00:36:32,140 --> 00:36:39,040 A land that has had cycles dominations, grafts of culture and 310 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:46,040 completely different languages, ha inevitably forced the 311 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:53,000 people to understand each other more through gestures, to silences, rather than words, 312 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,840 seeing as they were meetings of completely different languages. 313 00:36:56,820 --> 00:36:59,300 Naturally this code of signs... 314 00:37:00,940 --> 00:37:07,320 It was then congenial to the culture of suspicion, of secrecy, of violence, 315 00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:12,560 of silence, etc., etc. But it's there an explanation, so to speak, a little more 316 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,560 noble. 317 00:37:55,399 --> 00:38:02,260 I don't believe in the characters in my films are silent with respect 318 00:38:02,260 --> 00:38:03,400 to their emotions. 319 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,160 They have modesty, they are embarrassed to speak of this. 320 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:19,220 Which maybe is also mine embarrassment. 321 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,860 And perhaps it is this difficulty that sometimes emerges. 322 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,980 But there isn't one, so to speak, I don't have one never experienced as a problem. 323 00:39:07,009 --> 00:39:13,470 I often love to talk about the transition between this difficulty in getting them out 324 00:39:13,470 --> 00:39:16,030 emotions and conquering them. 325 00:39:17,890 --> 00:39:21,610 Go back to Totò to go to review 326 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:30,020 to find, so to speak, the key to time of his own difficulty 327 00:39:30,020 --> 00:39:31,020 sentimental. 328 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:45,380 Onof's struggle to regain the memory of himself and his 329 00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:47,360 relationship with women too. 330 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:51,280 At that time? 331 00:39:52,140 --> 00:39:53,140 Yes. 332 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,260 Yes, I know her. 333 00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:57,620 What do you mean? 334 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,980 A girl I loved. 335 00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:06,740 He can tell me when he saw her the last time? 336 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:12,460 One morning I left her at the hotel while he was sleeping and I went in 337 00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:15,460 airport without even saying goodbye. 338 00:40:18,980 --> 00:40:22,220 In Malena's case, that's the story this one. 339 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,360 A 13 year old, 14 year old boy, who during the 40s he falls in love with one 340 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:33,140 26, 27 year old lady, it's nothing more distant for a 13 year old of a lady from 341 00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:36,340 26 years old, moreover desired by everyone the country. 342 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:42,280 So he consumes this passion of his through stakeouts, stalking, 343 00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:48,040 long spies. So she's very present this woman in his thoughts, but she is 344 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,040 elusive. 345 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,860 Water is always there in my films, I think except the first and I'm not even one 346 00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:50,760 sure, maybe if you pay attention you can find it there too. 347 00:42:51,620 --> 00:42:56,160 There is the new Cinema Paradiso, there is in all, in all all. 348 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,520 I don't know, I should go to one psychoanalyst and ask what it means. 349 00:43:02,020 --> 00:43:07,980 For me it's a relationship for example conflicting with the sea. 350 00:43:08,380 --> 00:43:12,500 Because I love him very much, but I fear him for a long time die, so much so that I don't know how to swim, not 351 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:13,500 I never learned. 352 00:43:13,820 --> 00:43:17,580 But I like it, I would live by the sea, next to the sea, all my life. 353 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:43,400 Sciascio was fascinated by the fact that despite the Sicilians being an island 354 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:49,800 were afraid of the sea and in many cities even the houses have their backs to the 355 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,500 sea because the invasions, the 356 00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,980 storms, everything came from the sea bad. 357 00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,980 But then you go to the classic centers of the fishermen and you find houses instead 358 00:44:00,980 --> 00:44:05,080 they are therefore very open towards the sea you can find everything and the count of everything. 359 00:45:10,330 --> 00:45:13,610 Since some of my films, especially those who have had 360 00:45:13,610 --> 00:45:20,410 happened, took place in past years, then I was for a certain period 361 00:45:20,410 --> 00:45:23,390 The director's label is glued nostalgic. 362 00:45:25,050 --> 00:45:31,470 I don't recognize myself in the line of seeking in the past a different Sicily or 363 00:45:31,470 --> 00:45:35,290 better than today's, I don't I recognize this, or rather I relate to it more 364 00:45:35,290 --> 00:45:36,279 in this. 365 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:42,660 the search in Sicily of the past key to understanding Sicily today. 366 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:52,220 I was the horizon 367 00:45:52,220 --> 00:45:57,880 able to look at it for a long time, as well as other things too, but my dream, the 368 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:03,080 My desire to leave was not an obsession. For me to want to do the 369 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,210 cinema It automatically meant go away from here, why not here 370 00:46:07,210 --> 00:46:13,610 I could, there were no production spaces. As long as you're there every day, you 371 00:46:13,610 --> 00:46:15,170 feel at the center of the world. 372 00:46:16,250 --> 00:46:19,590 It seems to you that nothing ever changes. 373 00:46:20,170 --> 00:46:26,810 Then you leave, a year, two, and when you come back everything has changed, yes 374 00:46:26,810 --> 00:46:27,870 breaks the thread. 375 00:46:29,010 --> 00:46:31,050 I don't know who you wanted to find, 376 00:46:31,970 --> 00:46:33,170 your things are no longer there. 377 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:40,820 You have to go away for a long time, though many years, to find again al 378 00:46:40,820 --> 00:46:47,360 return your people, the land, a month innate. 379 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:54,540 Totò Alfredo's theorem I lo I agree very much with that 380 00:46:54,540 --> 00:46:59,480 according to which he loves Sicily more since distant. 381 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:08,620 Indeed, the more time passes, the more this I find the theorem very convincing. 382 00:47:09,620 --> 00:47:11,100 Good luck! 383 00:47:14,980 --> 00:47:21,540 The truth is this, that when you stay here and you live there, you are brought to it 384 00:47:21,540 --> 00:47:26,920 inevitably to come across and 385 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:32,170 overestimate. the contradictions, i problems, everything that doesn't work, 386 00:47:32,270 --> 00:47:34,510 everything that doesn't go as it should go. 387 00:47:34,810 --> 00:47:37,250 And in Sicily there are many these things. 388 00:48:20,339 --> 00:48:27,080 900 instead prefers to stay within its own 389 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,080 island 390 00:48:29,210 --> 00:48:35,290 accepting even the mistake of living everything, both the positive and the positive 391 00:48:35,290 --> 00:48:41,630 the shadows of one's condition existential. 392 00:48:45,370 --> 00:48:50,970 Dark is one that 393 00:48:50,970 --> 00:48:56,650 everything that is beyond the horizon he always imagined it. 394 00:48:57,900 --> 00:49:01,460 Once in his life he commits the mistake of going and seeing for yourself 395 00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:02,940 how things really are. 396 00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,020 Your father is a very good person, a friend. 397 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,540 We have thirty years of service together done. 398 00:49:12,140 --> 00:49:13,140 How are you? 399 00:49:13,460 --> 00:49:15,000 Is dead. 400 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,180 Say hello to him, tell him I'll be back as soon as I get back I'm going to visit. 401 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:41,400 As you can see, the themes are always the same ourselves and as you can see as far as I go around 402 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:47,380 around and change the cards on the table, for a Sicilian the problem of going 403 00:49:47,380 --> 00:49:49,580 away or not it's always there. 404 00:49:51,100 --> 00:49:56,560 This is nothing to do, this it's in your DNA. 405 00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:19,980 Maybe I would have even stayed there if not I had the desire to do the 406 00:50:19,980 --> 00:50:24,480 cinema. But this is a mystery to us which I can no longer give one 407 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:25,480 answer. 408 00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:32,940 Now that I'm back, let me for please this question. 409 00:50:33,580 --> 00:50:34,600 How are you doing? 410 00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,920 Angela, what are you doing? Are you afraid to ask me? 411 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,140 And I'll answer you anyway. 412 00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,640 It was an important journey. 413 00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:49,870 I'm sorry I can't show you the photographs. 414 00:50:51,730 --> 00:50:56,530 I walked a lot and discovered many things. 415 00:50:57,350 --> 00:51:03,350 For example, which our earth is not beautiful in itself, as everyone says. 416 00:51:03,950 --> 00:51:09,090 It's beautiful because, being inside it, things far away 417 00:51:09,090 --> 00:51:11,750 they look better. 418 00:51:12,750 --> 00:51:13,750 Yes. 419 00:51:14,770 --> 00:51:15,770 How? 420 00:51:16,250 --> 00:51:21,430 Our children, our children, are everyone is fine. 421 00:51:21,730 --> 00:51:22,730 Yes, 422 00:51:23,110 --> 00:51:24,930 yes, they are honored on the continent. 423 00:51:25,270 --> 00:51:28,270 And we can walk with our heads held high. 424 00:51:28,550 --> 00:51:31,390 And all of Sicily can be too proud. 425 00:51:33,050 --> 00:51:34,110 What do you say? 426 00:51:34,710 --> 00:51:35,710 Certain. 427 00:51:36,690 --> 00:51:40,610 And they also greet you and send you lots of kisses. 428 00:51:53,740 --> 00:51:54,740 They're all fine.