Title of film : STORNELLATA ROMANA
Director Name : Pietro Francisci
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Synopsis : This Short film is a distillation of simple splendour: imagery similar to contemporary photonovels, a spare narrative framework that awaits the title song’s arrival to demonstrate its full romantic potential, a collection of postcard-like glimpses that invite us to immerse ourselves in fairy tale worlds Francisci, here as in many other examples from his career, masters every detail with the utmost success, demonstrating that achieving simplicity that is beautiful is a rare talent. Her debut as a leading actress in Francisci’s song-based shorts is almost undocumented. We are screening three of them (Stornellata romana, ‘Na sera ‘e maggio, ‘O sole mio!), in which an “s” disappears from her temporary stage name and the magnetism that made her sublime is indelible. Complementing them are two performances by another young hopeful who would not be as successful, Anna Nievo: an incursion into the nostalgia for the café chantant (Come facette mammeta?, pepped up by the chanteuse performance by Diana Nava), and the sentimental romance between a country girl and a fisherman in Marechiare.
Director Bio : Pietro Francisci (9 September 1906 – 1977) was an Italian film director, best remembered for the film Hercules (1958) which inspired the sword and sandal boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Rome, his career took a distinct turn for the worse after he directed the 1966 science-fiction film 2+5 Missione Hydra, released in the U.S. in 1977 as Star Pilot.
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