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Atlantic, B
2025-05-16
20:30
Journey to the end of a juke-box, the biggest in the world: Naples, a treasure chest of songs, indeed a homeland of songs, a legend which starts with the founding myth of muses.

Journey to the end of a juke-box, the biggest in the world: Naples, a treasure chest of songs, indeed a homeland of songs, a legend which starts with the founding myth of muses. Songs and singers, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are all protagonists of a film which crosses one the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world, one of the very few able to embody an idea of life. The foreign, but not too foreign, glance of the Italian-American John Turturro traverses the city and its music, from the “Canto delle lavandaie del Vomero”, dated 1200, to “Napul’è” by Pino Daniele, conjuring distant stories and nearby myths. The film journeys from nostalgic memories to reconstructions, from singing carousels to street voices, from the Neapolitan melodramas to video-clips, from the history of songs to the stories songs tell and hide.

The film is presented at the festival without English subtitles.

duration:
88 min
country / year of production:
Italy, USA, Germany / 2010
director:
John Turturro
cinematography:
Marco Pontecorvo
production:
Alessandra Accai, Carlo Machitella, Giorgo Magliulo / Skydancers, Squezeed Heart Production, Madeleine
selected festivals and awards:
2010 – Venice IFF: Award of The City Of Rome, 2011 – Beirut IFF, 2011 – Miami IFF, 2011 – New Zealand IFF, 2011 – St. Louis IFF, 2010 – Rio De Janeiro IFF, 2010 – TIFF Toronto
tags:
music art cities Italy

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