Stefano Consiglio presents a special screening of his doc Evviva Giuseppe dedicated to Giuseppe Bertolucci.

On Monday 18 December, there will be a special screening of the documentary Evviva Giuseppe by Stefano Consiglio, dedicated to Giuseppe Bertolucci, which was presented a few months ago in Venice. The director will be in Turin to introduce the screening. Admission 7.50/5.00 euro.

“How can one talk about such a multifaceted artist, someone with such a wealth of humanity as Giuseppe Bertolucci, whom I was so close to for such a long time? This – says director Stefano Consiglio– is the first question I asked myself when I decided to address the project (painful and exciting at the same time, for me) of a film about him. The answer came while thinking about another Bertolucci, Attilio, the poet -father, who chose Paul Klee’s words: “Follow every beat of his heart” as an epigraph to his famous essay, ‘Poetica dell’extrasistole’. And this is what I tried to do, looking through the materials (both filmed by me and stock footage) I had to work with. It was an emotional journey more than a biographical/critical one, a story told through similarities and contrasts, interwoven with “free associations”. (After all, psychoanalysis had to peep out somewhere in a film about Giuseppe...)”.

Evviva Giuseppe is a production by Célestes Images, Verdiana, Bologna Film Archive Foundation, with the support of the Emilia Romagna Region Film Commission.

Stefano Consiglio

Evviva Giuseppe (Hooray for Giuseppe)

(Italy 2017, 90′)

Evviva Giuseppe is a film about the life and the many valuable talents of Giuseppe Bertolucci: film, theatre and TV director; writer, poet, talent scout and event planner. It is told through the voice of his father Attilio, of his elder brother Bernardo, the accounts of friends and colleagues witnesses such as Lidia Ravera, Mimmo Rafele, Marco Tullio Giordana or Nanni Moretti as well as the memories of some of his favourite actresses: Stefania Sandrelli, Laura Morante and Sonia Bergamasco. With the help of Gian Luca Farinelli, the participation of Fabrizio Gifuni, Emanuele Trevi, Aldo Nove and with Roberto Benigni’s unpublished monologue, written as a tribute to his now departed old friend.