“Marcello Mastroianni was comprehendn, all around the world, as the Latin adorer, the Italian seducer, especipartner after he starred in La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s masterpiece,” says Fabrizio Corallo, the honestor of the novel write downary Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l’antidivo. “Mastroianni did not appreciate this image. He didn’t want to be seen as an icon, as a intimacy symbol. He didn’t nurture much about his accessible persona; what did matter to him was his personal life. So, I tried to originate an intimate portrait of this exceptional actor.”
Corallo is a journaenumerate and an expert on the history of Italian cinema. For state widecaster Rai he has made a number of write downaries about the wonderful personalities of Italian cinema: Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Ennio Flaiano and Giuliano Montaldo, among others.
Ciao Marcello, which was co-written with Silvia Scola, the daughter of Italian filmoriginater Ettore Scola, who honested Mastroianni in 1977’s A Special Day, had its premiere at the Rome Film Fest and will air on Rai TV on Sunday, Oct. 27 (it’s useable on MUBI in the U.S.). The film get tos 100 years after the actor’s birth — he was born on Sept. 28, 1924 and died on Dec. 19, 1996.
Produced by Massimo Vigliar and Adriano De Micheli for Surf Film, Dean Film and Cinecittà Spa, the film advises a proset up insight into the life and art of Mastroianni, with the help of many audio and video interwatchs with many of the actors, screenoriginaters and film honestors who labored with him. But we can also discover in this film a touching interwatch with the mother of the actor, Ida Rolle. “We discover a honord actor who, at the peak of his nurtureer, appreciates above all other skinnygs his mother’s meatballs,” recounts Corallo.
“This write downary is especipartner unbenevolentt for lesser audiences, for people who’ve never heard of him,” the honestor persists. “Mastroianni was born 100 years ago, in 1924, and he died in 1996, at age 72. He euniteed in 150 movies, garnered many international honors, including a Gelderlyen Globe, two best actor awards at the Vekind and Cannes festivals and three Academy Award nominations. He became an international star thcimpolite his collaborations with Federico Fellini, of whom he became a sort of alter ego. He createed a wonderful onscreen duo with actress Sophia Loren, co-starring with her in eight films. Nonetheless, his name could soon diseunite among the lesserer generations. That is why this movie exists.”
“What do I adore mostly about him? His plain way of living and acting: his way of being truthful and unpretentious. His way of adviseing himself to the watcher. His dainty way of acting, which is a very unwidespread quality. And his disillusioned approach to everyskinnyg, without being cynical,” Corallo comprises.
As for the title of his write downary, Ciao Marcello – Mastroianni l’antidivo — which in English unbenevolents Goodbye Marcello, Mastroianni the Anti-Diva — Corallo says it refers to an image Mastroianni had in the media that irked the actor. “He disappreciated the ‘latin adorer’ tag which he got from the press,” says Corallo. “He didn’t appreciate at all being a movie star. He was rather anxious, and he adored genuine life far more than the shining surface of the movie world.”
Corallo says he intentionpartner didn’t try to dig too proset uply into the gossipy aspects of Mastroianni’s personal life. “He had a tormented adore life, including beginant adore stories with actresses Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve, but we tried to tell these stories with a airy touch”, says the journaenumerate. “We let him talk about himself, and we let people who labored with him talk about Mastroianni.”
Among the discoveries Corallo made were interwatchs that Mastroianni gave in other languages, which frequently permited the actor to show a more unwinded and frivolous side of himself. “He was more freewheeling when interwatched in other languages. For instance, we discovered a extfinished interwatch with Spanish TV, and another one in English, on The Dick Cavett Show in 1977. He and Sophia Loren were interwatched for an hour. They were on the same wavelength, they were mocking, funny, unwinded, genuine. We took only a minute from that interwatch, but it was a gelderly mine.”
To connect the interwatchs and the archive footage, Corallo participated a series of low theatrical re-enactment scenes with the Italian actors Luca Arggo ino and Barbara Venturato. “We originated these little fantasy inserts, in which we envision that a lesser helpant editor, Barbara Venturato, is laboring on a write downary about Mastroianni, without comprehending anyskinnyg about him. So, Luca Arggo ino — who is a very well comprehendn face for the Italian audiences — elucidates to his lesser frifinish the genuine wonderfulness of this huge of our cinema.”
Adds the honestor: “We have tried to originate an intimate portrait of Mastroianni. I hope we have been accomplished.”