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PRESS RELEASE (7/2/2014)
Saturday, Feb. 8, a Loano, at 4 p.m, at Council Chamber in Doria Palace a conference on John Turturro's film “Passion” will be held, organized by the’UNITRE of Loano under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
The meeting, curated by Antonio Di Lecce, proposes the conference on the film “Passion” by John Turturro, A musical journey into the magical atmospheres of Naples.
The film had been presented in July 2011 in the prestigious setting of the festival City of Loano National Award for Italian Traditional Music, which awarded, specifically to John Turturro the 2011 Cultural Reality Award. The actor-director received the award on the final night at the national premiere of “Passion Concert Tour.”, music production that is the brainchild of John Turturro, with the artistic direction of Federico Vacalebre. On stage to offer the very rich Neapolitan melodic heritage were. Peppe Barra, James Senese, Almamegretta, Pietra Montecorvino, Misia, M'barka Ben Taleb, Gennaro Cosmo Parlato, Spakka-Neapolis 55.
The documentary film “Passion” is a journey, shot in a style that mixes screenplay and videoclip, into the eternal Neapolitan song, classical melody and contemporary rhythms, mandolin and rap, with presences such as the Almamegretta, the Avion Travel, Pietra Montecorvino, Peppe Barra, Massimo Ranieri, Lina Sastri, James Senese and a few geographical deviations, because songs like “O Sole mio” have taken root in all latitudes. So here in the film is also the Tunisian M'Barka Ben Taleb and the Portuguese Misia to duet with the others. And among them the Sicilian Rosario Fiorello.
For Turturro, flanked by music journalist from ‘Il Mattino’ Federico Vacalebre, it was important to have different talents from different backgrounds.
The foreign eye, but not too much, of Italian-American John Turturro traverses the city and its music, evokes distant histories and near myths, alternates between amarcord and reconstruction, singing carousels and street voices, the scripted to the video clip, the history of the song to the stories the songs tell and hide.
Each song becomes a small script, a sentimental postcard sent from a city and the forces that move it: the energy, the dramas, the pride, the ironies. And over all a great, pressing sensuality, and the laughter of intelligence and heart.{:}
