A Masterly Movie Adaptation of Short Stories by Luigi Pirandello

The New Yorker
  • Archive - Festival 38
  • Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
  • Italy 2022
  • 188 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani adapt to the screen five folkloric and political stories by Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. The stories, filled with magic, drama, misery and hope, are set in Pirandello’s native Sicily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Filming on location in the region's still-wild landscapes, savoring the bird's-eye views of the raw and rocky terrain, returning to the world of childhood and listening closely to women's words, the Tavianis evoke the sources of Pirandello's inspiration and create a luminous, epic masterpiece.

Filmography: Leonora addio (2022), Wondrous Boccaccio (2015), Caesar Must Die (2012), Elective Affinities (1996), Fiorile (1993), Night Sun (1990), Good Morning Babilonia (1987), Kaos (1984), The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Father and Master (1977)

Screened as part of a double feature with the film Leonora addio by Paolo Taviani

 

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  • Director Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
  • Production Giuliani G. De Negri
  • Script Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Tonino Guerra, based on the stories of Luigi Pirandello
  • Cinematography Giuseppe Lanci
  • Editing Roberto Perpignani
  • Music Nicola Piovani
  • Actors Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Ciccio Ingrassia, Claudio Bigagli, Franco Franchi
  • Source Rai