Giuseppe Tornatore and Ennio Morricone, an almost paternal relationship
“I worked for thirty years with Ennio Morricone. I have done almost all my films with him, not to mention the documentaries, commercials and projects that we have tried to set up without success. During all this time our friendship has been consolidated more and more. So, film after film, as my knowledge of his character as a man and as an artist deepened, I always wondered what kind of documentary I could make about him. And today the dream came true. I wanted to make “Ennio” to make Morricone's story known to the public all over the world who love his music.
It was not just a matter of having him tell me about his life and his magical relationship with music, but also of searching in archives around the world for repertory interviews and other images relating to the countless collaborations carried out in the past by Morricone with filmmakers. most important of his career. I structured Ennio as an audiovisual novel, which through the pieces of the films he sets to music, the archive images, the concerts, can let the viewer enter the formidable existential and artistic parable of one of the most loved musicians of the '900 ".
Giuseppe Tornatore and his way of thanking the Maestro
It will be his way of remembering it. It will be her way of saying to him, in her name and in the name of millions of people spread over the five continents, just one word: thank you. At the 78th Venice Film Festival, in the Out of Competition section, it will be presented Ennio, a documentary written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and dedicated to Ennio Morricone, the Maestro who passed away on 6 July 2020. Ennio is a long interview about an artist who has given us over 500 soundtracks that have made the history of Italian and world cinema. It is Giuseppe Tornatore himself who interviewed the Maestro.
Words, stories accompanied by archival images and testimonies of various directors and artists who have worked with the musician and composer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Julian Montaldo, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, brothers Taviani, Carlo Verdone, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Bruce Springsteen, Nicola Piovani.
The man Ennio Morricone. Beyond the musical genius
The film also and above all introduces us to the man who hid behind the composer. It makes us appreciate hitherto unknown aspects of the Roman composer's personality, such as, for example, his passion for chess. Or it makes us understand how all sounds could magically transform themselves into sources of inspiration, like the scream of the coyote that sparked the Master for the creation of one of his masterpieces: the theme of the good, the bad and the ugly.
Ennio Morricone and Giuseppe Tornatore were almost thirty years apart and for thirty years they worked side by side, side by side. Together they wrote pages of cinema history. A crazy start of collaboration, which created a cinematic masterpiece like "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, Winner of the Oscar for best foreign film in 1988 and accompanied by a masterpiece soundtrack, obviously by Ennio Morricone. From then on, many artistic collaborations and the birth of an almost paternal friendship between the Maestro and the Sicilian director.
Ennio, a very sweet gift
Ennio it is a gift that Giuseppe Tornatore gives to all of us. A little more than a year after the death of Ennio Morricone, not a day goes by that someone does not recall the memory of the great composer. His music has embraced the last sixty years of our history and some of his melodies have become much more than wonderful soundtracks born for the cinema. They have become musical splits of our lives, themselves soundtracks of moments in our lives. Ennio Morricone has made his Classical Music of Cinema good for all, which we have all enjoyed and enjoyed.
Also for this reason we always have the duty, as well as the pleasure, to remember it. His music made us flow the most vibrant emotions in our veins. He made us smile and move, exalt and shiver, hold our breath and pull it out all together, in one fell swoop and always following the time that his notes indicated. Being able to tell Ennio Morricone was a great pleasure for Giuseppe Tornatore. It was a great fortune for the Sicilian director to meet the composer. We, who did not have this great opportunity, were lucky to know the Maestro through his music. And that's already a lot. Very, very much.
The films of Giuseppe Tornatore with the soundtrack of Ennio Morricone
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuovo_Cinema_Paradiso
Malena https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A8na
The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_leggenda_del_pianista_sull%27oceano
Baaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baar%C3%ACa_(film)
Are all well https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanno_tutti_bene_(film_1990)
La domenica especially https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_domenica_specialmente
A pure formality https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_pura_formalit%C3%A0
The man of the stars https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27uomo_delle_stelle
The correspondence https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_corrispondenza
the best offer https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_migliore_offerta
The correspondence https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_corrispondenza
Article by Stefano Vori
