Portal de Cartagena
www.portaldecartagena.com
His acting career ceased to be a priority for years, so it increasingly difficult to see the New York actor John Turturro.
His career as a director he is very busy and in 2010 appeared at the Venice a documentary about the Neapolitan music, Passione.
The film of great Turturro will be projected for the first time in Spain in the cycle film the festival La Mar de Músicas place in July in Cartagena, in particular of Italian cinema who has coordinated Joaquin Canovas.
The screening will be on Saturday 16th July at 19.00 hours in the Nuevo Teatro Circo. Free admission.
Turturro directs this musical about the postal town in southern Italy, which claims the best pizza in the world to know how to be more flavorful coffee and the cradle of the mandolin.
Passione is a musical documentary on the history of the Neapolitan song and the way people feel the Neapolitan.
Turturro up and a labor of love for Naples, the port city with a reputation for chaos, which already Vittorio Gassman said in Profumo di Donna (1974) there began Africa.
For the protagonist of Barton Fink, Italian roots, Naples is a fascinating music box. There is so much music coming from there, said the filmmaker when he appeared before reporters at the Venice Film Festival where the film was presented out of competition.
Turturro, a great lover of music since his childhood, when at his home in Brooklyn listened to tunes all the time, will also debut behind the camera for five years with a musical he wrote: Romance & Cigarettes.
The Passion of Turturro, Italian father emigrated to America, the land of his ancestors led him on a journey film and music by Naples.
His songs and singers, musicians and poets, their legendary characters are the protagonists of this documentary that crosses one of the most beautiful and controversial in the world.
In the same line as Wenders explored Cuban music Buena Vista Social Club Passione of the songs of the thirteenth century and reaches the best known as O sole mio or Volare.
Ultimately, a documentary that speaks not only tunes but also the stories that contain these melodies.
The voices of the past give way to new players, able to continue a tradition as deeply rooted as splendid, transforming it into something new while knowing preserve its essence.
Many are the artists featured in this documentary.
From the large Mina Almamegretta through the group, acting on La Mar de Músicas on 16 July, the same day, the movie or the singer Massimo Ranieri, Lina Sastri and Peppe Barra, and saxophonist James Senese, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies