L'uomo dal sigaro in bocca

Venice 74 -

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much more: daily and deeper aspects of his life, his love for Southern Italy, his passion for cinema, his relationship with music, his bulimic curiosity of launching himself into new artistic adventures, his mercurial energy and his boundless sense of humor.

The texts of the poet, director, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, read by Toni Servillo and accompanied by archival images, reconstruct the history of Italy since the war through to the 70s: the love for the people, the hatred of the bourgeoisie, the difficult relationship with the youth protest.

Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs.

Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

By means of a skillful interweaving of sequences from erotic documentaries produced in the Sixties, the so-called "world" genre, the film offers a close-up look at the nightlife of the day in cities such as Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other exotic locations mapped out by the popular imagination of this genre, which opts for the documentary style to evoke a largely taboo world, that of naked desire.

The last interview of Bernardo Bertolucci who recalls his work with precision, delicacy and philosophy.