The 4th Festival Rome has lived most certainly one of the experiences and expectations of greater appeal to the Auditorium with a screening of Terry Gilliam's latest film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus." A project marked by great expectations and attention ampilificata obviously out of proportion by the death of Heath Ledger.
Gilliam makes courageous choices, perhaps unwise, for the whole movie. Almost religious exaltation of color and blinding of the most absurd kitsch behind the magic mirror of Dr. Parnassus take forms rarely seen before. An exercise megalomaniac in search of the perfect surreal, interposed in a world that we all know where the customers eating and drinking Imaginarium oppressed their souls and give relief, each in its own way, to dreams and nightmares, always forced to choose between devil and holy water. Gilliam also enter nell'Imaginarium, and soon loses control of the material in his hand. Enhances their strengths, highlighting while the defects.
His innate inclination to provoke the imagination of the spectator, throwing at a childlike ruminations, here touches the apex. And then the film will be a journey into absurd stories, immortal, always interrupted at the beginning of another, more compelling, the characters have been stolen here and there to fables, to tragedy, mythology (Faust at all) and the cinema gender.
And here comes the Gilliam who can not control, what can not tame the world that is not even on this side of the magic mirror. The director, who was also haunted by a project may soon scappatogli hands, he can not realize that to continue to tease the imagination the audience must make them believe that there is still a thin umbilical cord that keeps the story, or at least the characters, attached to a semblance of reality that makes it truly magical and timeless, avoiding to give his side a point d ' irritability that someone could reveal in more than two hours of delirium.
We had dry, thinning all over the 'too' Gilliam, and there's so much, thus reinvigorating the good ideas from which you started. Metaphorical than from the fact upon which all art, which is nothing but the world behind the mirror, the door for us all to a nice drift where anything goes, to get a result to the mythological figure of the artist that can never fully enjoy their talent.
The untimely death of Ledger has certainly not helped the compactness of the film, which is in the midst of this hubbub also proposes the transfiguration of the character of Tony, beyond the mirror, take the usual faces of Johnny Depp, Jude Law in a way out of a good role and Colin Farrell. Despite the cleverness of those who have made this decision, analyzing the history entirely plausible, prospering in his latest film's regret, more than misericordistico film lover, the death of Ledger, and magnetic chameleon here as we wanted to see him again and again.
If it is true that the good thing too, however it is undeniable that the excesses are also of great curiosity, and this is what it deserves Gilliam's film, a lot of healthy curiosity and admiration, with the clear awareness that he would have done better simply by adjusting the throw in a couple of choices.
Terry Gilliam remembers Heath Ledger
The former Monty Python genius arrives at the Rome Film Festival to present "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus", the last film played by the late Heath LedgerDifficile pause on a movie, even though the importance of "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus "When this brings with it the touching testimony of a life and career, interrupted abruptly. And in fact the encounter with Gilliam back often, almost always, to the memory of the American. "I was an actor, a man and a friend unbeatable. Full of life and humor, also has a hint of sarcasm, and then one thing that impressed me about him was the wisdom that he brought with him. I always thought that Aboriginal blood flowed in his veins, 247 years when he died. "In the film the scenes that Ledger could not have been given a starring Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, three distinguished friends of Heath:" Johnny, Jude, Colin wanted to cooperate and take part because the film has always been very close to him. And I find that they know so well, they have also brought in their interpretations. Even Tom Cruise's entourage has brought its Assisted to replace Heath, but I have not accepted because they knew little about. I just wanted to close friends of Heath on the set. "Obviously the death of Ledger has all facing a series of choices to make:" We decided - says the director - not to change the script entirely, of make the film as we had imagined with Heath. "And this statement shifts the focus on the passion that the performer had for the direction, which he wanted to do the job tomorrow:" He was so determined to become a director on the set did nothing but learn and his desire to learn was inexhaustible. He wanted to keep changing scenes and even changed their lines. His presence was so strong on the set that we had thought to co-sign the director. To be honest I often could not even keep up with all his energy was incredible when he was working. " And this energy on set was probably one of its key features, what the immortalizing are in everyone's memory as a character incredibly charismatic and full of life: "He was laughing all the time, really surprised us at every moment, all filled with jokes. And the amazing thing he did all this without forgetting the continued construction of its character. It changed focus and ways depending on the object of his seduction. This chameleon-like nature that has helped create a truly complex character I'm sure that has helped the work of Depp, Law and Farrell who were able to reinterpret them as a character with a thousand faces. "
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