{"id":7280,"date":"2018-11-20T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asinovolablog.it\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:15:28","slug":"notti-magiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asinovolablog.it\/en\/notti-magiche\/","title":{"rendered":"Notti Magiche | The Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]L<\/span><\/strong>ike clockwork, here’s the new film by Paolo Virz\u00ec. A mix between a virulent j’accuse<\/em> of Italian cinema (yesterday’s? today’s?) and a personal Amarcord<\/em>, Notti Magiche<\/em> (Magic Nights) seems like a usual Virz\u00ec product, with a touch of his unmistakable cheesiness.<\/p>\n

Let’s see what Sofia Brugali and Margherita Fontana think of it.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”20″ bottom_padding=”20″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”7283″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

Notti Magiche \u2013 as seen by Sofia Brugali<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

With his new comic crime drama, Paolo Virz\u00ec carries us to his world made of big dreams and bittersweet realities. The set is the one of Rome in 1990, in which people are full of hopes because of the World Cup and they are caught by the TV-screens during the \u201cmagic nights\u201d in which Italy plays its matches. In this huge stage, we follow the extraordinary adventures of three young aspiring screenwriters, each one with his\/her own strong personality: a rebel Tuscan, secretly touched by his father\u2019s death; a erudite and clumsy Sicilian and a Roman burgeois in conflict with his dad and addicted to various drugs. The story starts at its epilogue: it is the third of July, the date in which every ambition of the Italian population comes to an end with the defeat against Argentina and the protagonists\u2019 dream of working in the movie business dies, as the producer Leandro Saponaro, whose car falls in Tevere in an action movie-like scene. This expedient creates two different stage realities: one set in the present, in which the three young persons, charged with Leandro\u2019s death, recall the events in front of an audience made of policemen and the other one set in the past, the one of the youngsters\u2019 tales, in which the aspiring screenwriters become actors, from their arrival to Rome as finalists for the best script in the Solinas Award, through their frustrating experience of the film world, to their disenchantment and their decision to leave their initial projects. At the end of the movie, the double perspective is overcome first by the police chief, who from spectator becomes critic, then by a journalistic look into the future of the three characters, whose lives have gone on despite their disappointment, marked by the short-but-intense moments they lived together.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][vc_column_text]\n

Notti Magiche \u2013 as seen by Margherita Fontana<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

After his American interlude with The Leisure Seeker<\/em>, Virz\u00ec comes back to Italy to make an appeal (and a reproach) to the filmmakers\u2019 generation to which he belongs (and from whence he comes). Rome, 1990: the Magical Nights (Notti magiche<\/em>) are the ones of the World Cup sang by Gianna Nannini and Edoardo Bennato. In front of a kiosk alongside the Tiber, everyone is so glued to the TV for the infamous semi-final Italy-Argentine, to the point of barely noticing that a car has just fallen into the river (here\u2019s an evident metaphor of the intertwining of collective history and personal plot, something to keep in mind for the suite<\/em>). In the vehicle, there is the dead body of the decayed producer Leandro Saponaro. On the basis of the allegations made by Giusy, ragazza coccod\u00e9<\/em> and Saponaro\u2019s lover, the police arrests the three young screenwriters, finalists of the Solinas Award, who spent with him the last fatal hours: Eugenia, a rich (and complexed) Roman bourgeois, Luciano, a gross but talented boy from Tuscany, and Antonino, a sophisticated Sicilian. As the characters (or allegories of future cinematographic schools?) tell the story of their past month in Rome, the film describes their encounter with the world of Italian cinema, a geriatric house too busy fighting in the taverns to form a generation of heirs. Especially through the use of cinematography, Virz\u00ec suggests that what we witness isn\u2019t a simple flashback, but rather a sophisticated device created by our young screenwriters to direct suspicions away. Everything we see stands for<\/em> something else: Magical Nights<\/em> is an articulated metaphor of (an) Italian cinema crisis. It\u2019s raining quotations and references. Unfortunately the final result is a caricature which looks more as a two-hour inside joke, than a sharp satire (or a new Amarcord<\/em>).[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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