The mouth of the wolf Peter Marcello
Synopsis
Among the alleyways of the port of Genoa, in neighborhoods known as the popular parlance "the mouth of the wolf", it depletes the story of Enzo and Mary, his ex-convict, she tranny, that after they met in prison, they have never left and continued to love each other. Divided by the prison and hardships of a life, with Enzo in for twenty years, and Mary waiting for him outside, the two are finally reunited in 2001 and now, free, poor but happy, talk about their adventure in front of the camera . The 2010
of auteur cinema, which has trails and canals almost entirely unknown to the mainstream media and, conversely, invisibility to the limits of censorship, had, among others, a great little player. A great little film that is haunting Europe, sometimes even coming from overseas, picking up awards left and right: it is The mouth of the wolf, directed by Milan-born Pietro Marcello bells, and a documentary who was able to knock down a shot of all the prejudices and the parties made against a general (rather, a way to look and story) that now compete on par, if not surpasses, and fiction.
little over a year ago, in November of 2009, premiered at the Turin Film Festival , Mouth of the Wolf won in a surprising way the public and the critics and took home the first prize at the international level, starting a triumphant walk in almost all other festivals in which he participated: in February came the most prestigious award, the Forum of the Berlinale , that is the most experimental section and searching for the Berlin Film Festival, and a few weeks after the Prix International Cinema du Reel to Paris. Even before then, in early March, the film Marcello was honored as important for an Italian independent cinema release. One way to defeat by force of the quality of the poetry and the silent war that the vast and unparalleled distribution and programming of peripheral multiplex (cinema really the only city not frequented by the public) at least ten years to move from the art-house cinema .
course, the permanence of the film in theaters was very short and the number of tickets sold anything but exciting (to prove, after all, what the world festival circuit and the canons are light years away), but ' out in cinemas has granted The mouth of the wolf a subsequent version dvd Feltrinelli and almost certainly on television: not bad, in fact, for a film cost one hundred thousand euro and built on commission of a religious institute of the Jesuits.
Yeah, because the mouth of the wolf is the brainchild of San Marcellino Foundation of Genoa, who has been assisting the homeless community in the city, and was then entrusted to Peter Marcello and small businesses The experimental production and Indigo Film: a brave choice, and not only to celebrate not having thought of the Jesuit Opera, but his actions and the people who accept it.
The film, in fact, in just over an hour shows a lot of other things: that the documentary can be as exciting and most of the fiction, the art films, even when experimental and sought to get to know the heart of every spectator that two apparently distant worlds, that of religious works and independent cinema, they can communicate and create something important.
The mouth of the wolf tells the story of Mary and Enzo, a transsexual and a former inmate who met in prison and never lasciatisi. Divided by the prison, with Enzo in for over twenty years and Mary waiting for him outside, the two met in 2001 and now they can finally become the protagonists of their own adventure. Marcello tells it with style precise and a poetic documentary that borders on fiction, carugi the close of the port and the old archive material recovers the memory of a place and time lost. With the voice and face of his heroes carved with scenes of natural and other recited, with the audio tape that he sent to prison for Mary Enzo, with a glance share and curious, Marcello brings to life a story of ordinary crime through self-denial that has become absolute love.
"From the manure created the flowers," wrote De Andrè in a song dedicated to those same streets, those same persons at the same time. But it is not the past that The mouth of the wolf Watch: spoke in a voice clear and yet experimental, born from the union of human and professional experiences different yet close, shows that not only can another Italian cinema, but also another Italy. Who's Italy, religious, director or an ordinary citizen, down the street and observes, listens, understands, saves.
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