PRESS RELEASE (19/08/2014)
Wednesday, August 20, a Loano, will close the cycle of films “Cardboard Stories, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Paul Borio.
The review of animated films dedicated this year to. Enzo D'Alò, will present at 21.30 in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena, the screening of the film “Pinocchio” (Italy, 2012).
Enzo d'Alò's Pinocchio, based on the novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio. Story of a Puppet” by Carlo Collodi, is the culmination of a five-year artistic and productive dream. The director's meeting with Lorenzo Mattotti, the great illustrator who designed the Cannes Film Festival poster in 2000, has produced the miracle of an adaptation of the novel that is as faithful as it is innovative and original. The film was screened at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days section.
The music for the soundtrack is by Lucio Dalla (on his latest work). The song “Canzone di Turchina” is sung by Leda Battisti, “Mangia e bevi” by Nada, and “Busker” by Marco Alemanno.
Enzo d'Alò writes in the film's introduction: ... “As Geppetto builds Pinocchio, he sees himself again in his face. He imagines what Pinocchio sees when he looks at him. He realizes that he turns into the father of himself. In the puppet-child he sees again his past and, also, lost expectations. He becomes emotional. He is nostalgic for the choices he never made.
Perhaps Geppetto builds Pinocchio in the hope of never finishing it? His goal is the path, the inner fantasy that triggers the creation process: it is his point of view as a lost child that imagines the whole story. Regret, memory, future and expectations become Pinocchio.”....
Enzo D'Alò isthe only European author who has five animated feature films on his resume that have been successfully released in theaters around the world.
In 2009, he received a UNICEF Special Mention “for combining his art with children's rights and valuing the opportunities contained in differences, communicating the value and richness of confrontation, and inciting children to be protagonists of their lives.”.
In cinema, he made his directorial debut in 1996, the year of the release of the cartoon “The Blue Arrow”. In 1998 he signed “The Gabby and the Cat.”, with music by David Rhodes, produced by Peter Gabriel's Real Word. At Christmas 2001 he signed his third feature film “Momo in the conquest of time”, based on Michael Ende's short story of the same name, with music by Gianna Nannini.
In 2003, “Opopomoz”, an animated film dedicated to Naples, his hometown, and the magic of the Nativity scene, with a soundtrack signed by Pino Daniele and Gegé Telesforo, for the closing credits song ‘Opopomoz Blues,’ performed by him and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
In 2012, his latest animated film “Pinocchio,” with drawings and settings by Lorenzo Mattotti, music by Lucio Dalla, his latest unreleased work, was released with great success at the 69th Venice Film Festival as the opening film of the “Venice Days.”.
The evenings are at free admission.
