Lo zio di Brooklyn
12 May 2024 | 17:00
Cinema Roma
In the presence of Franco Maresco
The decay of Palermo is portrayed by three brothers, forced by a pair of Mafia dwarfs to host an anonymous, silent character.
These images opposed a brutal reality to televised unreality, crystallised a Sicilian and Italian post-civilisation of inertia, misery and waste beyond deceptive words, expressed a purely bodily survival primary and tenacious, said, “Life sucks.”
Lietta Tornabuoni, “La Stampa,” 1995
Production: Galliano Juso per Digital Film
Cast: Salvatore Gattuso, Pippo Augusta, Gaspare Marchione, Natale Lauria, Rosario Carollo, Pietro Rizzo, Francesco Arnao, Antonino Bruno, Luigi Cinà, Bruno Di Benedetto, Salvatore Farina, Pietro Giordano, Giovanni Lo Giudice, Marcello Miranda, Mario Salmeri, Vincenzo Serio, Mariano Spataro, Angelo Prollo, Camillo Conti, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Francesco Tirone, Massimo Salmeri
Regia di Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco
98'
Italy
1995
Franco Maresco (Palermo, 1958) began working in the 1970s and 1980s as a satirical cartoonist and radio program host. In 1986 he met Daniele Ciprì with whom he invented Cinico TV, which aired on Angelo Guglielmi’s Rai 3 starting in 1990 and is now almost unanimously considered one of the most innovative and original programs on Italian television. In 1995 the two directors made their first feature film, Lo zio di Brooklyn, followed by Totò che visse due volte (1998), Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003) and Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano. La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio (2004). Separating from Daniele Ciprì in 2007, Franco Maresco made Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l’Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (2010), Belluscone. Una storia siciliana (2014), winner of the Orizzonti prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the David di Donatello for best documentary, Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco (2015) and, finally, La mafia non è più quello di una volta (2019), special jury prize at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.