Maruzzella

The encounter of two solitudes: a transsexual and a young woman in a red-light cinema.

Maruzzella is a transvestite who haunts the corridors of red-light cinemas like a modern Phantom of the Opera, offering his clients very unusual sexual performances until he encounters a young woman, a desolate viewer of hard films, who will radically change the life of our protagonist.

 

Earth wind

If ‘E Zezi didn’t exist, I’d go crazy.  The factory, the bar and the news on TG3: that’s my whole day.  When I sing with ‘E Zezi, I feel good. 
Miciariello, alias Sebastiano Ciccarelli

 

‘E Zezi, is a historic musical group from the Neapolitan hinterland, prevalently consisting of automobile workers from the Alfasud plant in Pomigliano d’Arco. Through their music – tarantellas, tammurriatas and fronnes – they describe their world and its transformation from an agricultural society to an industrial one. Theirs is a music that links the ancient to the new with incredible vitality. A powerful visceral music that has become a political instrument for social reform.

Each Chair has its own Sound

I fell in love twenty-six times, I relapsed. As  many were the falls, so many were the poems.
Alda Merini

 

Alda Merini, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century confesses herself without inhibitions, recounting her life of suffering. This portrait alternates conversation with fragments of her poetry interpreted by Licia Maglietta (taken from her theatrical performance Love Delirium/Delirio amoroso).The encounter of these two women and their artistic fusion render for us the fragility and the greatness of a woman who had been overwhelmed by an excess of love.

Vittoria’s tales

Death belongs to us and its concept must go back to the very core of life.

The film is divided into three episodes in which a struggle with death is represented in different ways. In the first episode, entitled Holes of Love (Pozzi d’amore), the protagonist Enzo Moscato recites a sort of theatrical monologue.  A long tale in which he speaks about the fear of an imminent death and the anguish related to the forthcoming separation from a beloved one. On the contrary, in the second episode, Upper Left Corner (In alto a sinistra) a young man meditates upon his father’s death.  He recalls how his father had suffered during his terminal illness and, precisely in the name of that reminiscence, he can finally overcome the lacerating pain that accompanied his solitude.
In the last episode, Vittoria’s Tales (Racconti di Vittoria), oncologist Vittoria  has contracted cancer, and from within the disease, she encourages her patients with great courage and dignity  to fight for their lives. The leitmotiv of the film, suffering and death, is viewed from three different perspectives: the theatre, literature and television. The aim of the film is to exorcize death with a myth in the first episode, to ritualize it in the second and finally in the last case, to contend with death by looking it straight in the face.

 

Dr. Lucio Fulci’s day-for-night

A classic horror film? But it was I who made the classics!” interview with Lucio Fulci, master of this film genre.

A document/legacy of the great Lucio Fulci, master of the B-movie, whose work has inspired world famous directors such as Quentin Tarantino. Lucio Fulci treats us to a lengthy consideration on his way of doing cinema and his eccentric career, which is fascinating for its sincerity, irony and clearness of mind.