Branciaroli: “Enough films about Naples, as if Italy were just this band of Neapolitans”
Editorial board2 JUL 2022 12:11
The actor and director pointed the finger towards the decadence of Italian cinema: “I watch very few films”.
Franco Branciaroli, 75-year-old actor, in an interview with Rolling Stone, spoke of the Italian cultural crisis regarding Italian theater and cinema. La di lui is a long analysis in which it also touches on the Neapolitan hegemony in cinema. “I don’t watch anything. Except when they tell me a good film. But there are very few of them. Italian cinema is ridiculous, it’s always part of the amateur. Roman Polański said so too:” It’s a festive cinema. “He’s right. see with Korean cinema or American and English cinema. It would be time to stop making all the films about Naples… “.
Are you referring to Paolo Sorrentino? “Oh yes, come on, we’re broken! It’s as if Italy were just this band of Neapolitans”.
Could he take it in Naples? “But I don’t give a shit! You have to know something. My generation, born in ’47 with the smell of pyrite still in the air, had American culture as a popular culture. They know their respect much better. to the Italian one. I don’t know who Gaetano Salvemini is, but I know everything about Benjamin Franklin. And my culture was formed in the cinema. From the age of six I went to the cinema every day, I saw three films a day. Without choosing which one, why because you weren’t wrong. Italian films, compared to American ones, were already more difficult for people to understand “.
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