Arrives in Italian cinemas, and only for three days, the film "For Lucio". After the world premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the film directed by Pietro marcello will be screened in theaters on 5, 6, 7 July. Produced by IBC Movie with Rai Cinema in collaboration with Avventurosa with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, "Per Lucio" is a visual and sound journey into the poetic and irreverent imagination of Bolognese singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, who passed away on 2021 July XNUMX. A film that combines biography and history, but also reality and imagination to best describe the man and the artist.
Lucio Dalla's life between reality and imagination
The unpublished narrative is entrusted to the words of the trusted manager Umberto Righi (known as Tobia) and his childhood friend Stefano Bonaga. "For Lucio”He drew from many public and private, historical and amateur repertoires with archival materials from Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Home Movies - National Archive of Family Film, Audiovisual Archive of the labor and democratic movement and CSC Foundation - National Enterprise Cinema Archive (Ivrea). Pietro Marcello retraces the story of the artist and his many lives. From the debut to the consecration passing through the first successes and collaborations that have marked his career. In the background, an Italy that passes from the economic boom to the tragic events of the 70s.
Obviously there is no shortage of songs that have made the history of music in Italy. Among those present in the film there are many great hits such as "How deep is the sea", "Balla Balla Dancer" and "Futura". But also "Monday Film", "The river and the city", "Ithaca", "It is there", "The Song of Orlando", "The worker Gerolamo". “Per Lucio” is also a journey into the world imagined and sung by Lucio Dalla, from the squares to the bars of his beloved Bologna to the various stories told by the singer-songwriter.
An unpublished portrait of Lucio Dalla
Pietro Marcello, after the award-winning Martin Eden, thus retraces the Italy of the least and marginalized through the artist's story. Highlights the Italy of Lucio Dalla, a polymorphic figure that escapes any definition: histrionist, clown, jazzman, wayfarer, hero, poet, singer, prophet, transformer, provocateur. “Per Lucio” brings to light above all the first phase of Dalla's singer-musician adventure. Lucio Dalla tells, tells himself and in this way is exalted the cinematic power of his songs, the director's goal from the very first draft.
In this documentary Pietro Marcello does not limit himself to assembling statements and interviews but wants to make them known closely Lucio Dalla, unearthing his many lives.
Source of featured photograph: Daenerys-stark, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
