Michele Placido and Fabrizio Bentivoglio in IULM for the presentation of the film Eterno visionario
At IULM the meeting with director Michele Placido and actors Federica Luna Vincenti and Fabrizio Bentivoglio for the presentation of the film on Pirandello.
Michele Placido's new film Eterno visionario will be released in theaters soon. The director and actor brings to the screen a Pirandello traveling on the train that will take him to the Nobel Prize for Literature ceremony. It is 1934, and the long journey becomes an opportunity to retrace some of the moments of his existence: painful moments (his wife's mental illness, the rejection of his innovative theater by the bourgeois well-meaning public, his controversial relationship with Fascism) and happy ones (his meeting with the young actress and pupil Marta Abba).
The decision to put on the screen the twilight of the Sicilian writer's life stems from a sort of "closeness" Placido found with Pirandello: "I had acquired personal things that matched - with much humility, of course - with Pirandello's path," says director Michele Placido, who will present the film in the Auditorium on November 13 along with actors Federica Luna Vincenti, who plays Marta Abba, and Fabrizio Bentivoglio, who plays Pirandello. The lead actor argues that "precisely because his life was the direct nourishment of his works, it is impossible to understand the works without knowing his life," while Federica Luna Vincenti dwells on the fact that "the meeting with Marta Abba brings Pirandello to the apex of his writing."
The director and performers of Eterno visionario will dialogue with Professor Gianni Canova on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the Auditorium (IULM 6).
Admission to the event is free and open to all, students and citizens. To participate, it is necessary to register through this form