Pinocchio (2019)

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Movie
Original title Pinocchio
Country of production Italy , United Kingdom , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 2019
length 124 minutes
Rod
Director Matteo Garrone
script Matteo Garrone
production Matteo Garrone,
Jean Labadie ,
Jeremy Thomas
music Dario Marianelli
camera Nicolai Bruel
cut Marco Spoletini
occupation

Pinocchio is a film directed by Matteo Garrone and released in Italian cinemas on December 19, 2019. The film is based on the book of the same name by Carlo Collodi .

action

The lonely carpenter Geppetto has hardly any orders and no money for decent food. When a traveling puppet theater visits town, he decides to carve a lifelike marionette. To do this, he is working on a log that already has strangely animated properties and will soon take the shape of a human boy. When his creation comes to life and can even speak and run faster than he can himself, he happily announces to all his neighbors that Pinocchio is his son. He makes red clothes for him and also a little red hat and buys him a school book so that he can learn to read and write. For this he gives his coat and vest. Pinocchio tells a cricket that he doesn't want to go to school, and when Geppetto takes him there, he sells the primer and runs to the puppet theater. When this left town, Pinocchio also disappeared. Its owner, Mangiafuoco, wants it as firewood so that he doesn't have to eat his mutton raw, but finally lets himself be softened and releases him with a handful of gold coins for his poor father.

On the way back to the city he meets the cat and the fox, two impostors who sneak the boy's trust. They advise him to give away the coins in the floor of the wonder field so that they can multiply. At Pinocchio's expense, the two have their bellies in an inn. Although he is warned by the cricket, Pinocchio finds himself hanging from a tree the next morning while the cat and fox wait for his death, because the boy has hidden the coins in his mouth, which he does not want to open. A little fairy can save him and takes him in.

When Pinocchio meets the cat and the fox again, he buries the coins in the wonder field. When he notices that the two fraudsters have taken them and goes to court with this story, they put him in jail instead of the two thieves. Free again, he goes back to Geppetto's house, but Geppetto's has gone looking for his son. He goes to the house of the fairy, who has miraculously grown older since his last visit and takes him in again this time. She promises him that he will be like all the other boys if he earns it and goes to school diligently. There he meets a boy who becomes his first friend, but leads him to steal. Pinocchio is good at school and helps the snail who works in the fairy's household with the kitchen chores. She promises him that the next day he will finally become a normal boy, but Pinocchio lets his friend seduce him into moving away in a carriage full of children.

At first their host seems friendly and concerned about the well-being of the children, but the next morning when they wake up, they have huge ears and quickly turn into donkeys. In this form they are brought to the market where they are to be sold.

production

Filming began in March 2019 in the municipality of Sinalunga in Tuscany

Directed by Matteo Garrone , who also wrote the script. The child actor Federico Ielapi took over the title role from Pinocchio. Originally Toni Servillo provided for the role of Geppetto, but was by Oscar winner Roberto Benigni replaced. Maria Pia Timo plays the snail Lumaca, Teco Celio the gorilla and Davide Marotta the talking cricket. The French actress Marine Vacth can be seen in the role of the fairy .

The shooting began on March 18, 2019 in the municipality of Sinalunga in the province of Siena in Tuscany and continued until June 2019 in the cities and municipalities of Polignano a Mare , Noicattaro , Ostuni and Gravina in Puglia on the Adriatic Sea in the Metropolitan city of Bari in Apulia and in the central Italian city of Viterbo in Lazio . The production designer was Dimitri Capuani .

The film music is composed by Dario Marianelli . The recording was made together with the Roma Tre Orchestra. The soundtrack was released for download by Air-Edel Records in December 2019. The album also includes the title track Passo Passo , written by Marianelli and sung by Petra Magoni.

The film was released in Italian cinemas on December 19, 2019 and was shown in February 2020 as part of the Berlin Film Festival . A cinema release in France is planned for March 2020.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far convinced 92 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics .

In the festival report of the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater for the Berlinale it says that the film takes the interpretation of the timeless educational fable about the famous wooden doll who wants to be a real boy to extremes: “I like the mean approach, in times of CGI flooding Still relying on hand-made effects and real make-up, to be welcomed, Garrones Pinocchio quickly suffers from its own deliberate realism. ”In this disenchanted-looking world that Matteo Garrone presents to us, no fairytale flair arises. The look remains bland, the educational stations of the cheeky protagonist are unwound from a hypothermic distance, and even the bizarre Roberto Benigni only wakes up a tired smile here and there

Awards

David di Donatello 2020

  • Award for the best equipment (Dimitri Capuani)
  • Award for the best costumes (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
  • Award for the best make-up (Dalia Colli and Mark Coulier)
  • Award for the best hairstyles (Francesco Pegoretti)
  • Award for the best visual effects (Theo Demeris and Rodolfo Migliari)
  • Nomination for best film
  • Nomination for the best director
  • Nomination for the best sound
  • Nomination for the best adapted screenplay
  • Nomination for the best camera
  • Nomination for the best film editing
  • Nomination for the best film music ( Dario Marianelli )
  • Nomination for Best Producer
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actor ( Roberto Benigni )
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Alida Baldari Calabria)

Nastro d'Argento 2020

  • Award for directing the best Italian film (Matteo Garrone)
  • Award for Best Supporting Actor (Roberto Benigni)
  • Award for the best costumes (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
  • Award for the best sound (Maricetta Lombardo)
  • Award for the best film editing (Marco Spoletini)
  • Award for the best equipment (Dimitri Capuani)
  • Received the Guglielmo Biraghi Award - Special Mention ( Federico Ielapi )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Deborah Young: 'Pinocchio': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Anne Jerratsch: Pinocchio: Roberto Benigni becomes Geppetto in real film adaptation. In: robots-and-dragons.de, October 26, 2018.
  3. ^ A b La Puglia di "Pinocchio", nuovo film di Matteo Garrone e Roberto Benigni. In: siviaggia.it, March 21, 2019. (Italian)
  4. ↑ https://www.toscanafilmcommission.it/en/matteo-garrones-pinocchio-on-location-in-toscana-lazio-and-puglia/
  5. ↑ https://www.tusciatimes.eu/matteo-garrone-a-viterbo-per-le-riprese-di-pinocchio/?upm_export=pdf
  6. ↑ Dario Marianelli to Score Matteo Garrone's 'Pinocchio'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, July 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ Dario Marianelli's 'Pinocchio' Score to Receive Worldwide Release. In: filmmusicreporter.com, August 17, 2020.
  8. ↑ Soundtrack Album for Matteo Garrone's 'Pinocchio' Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, December 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ Jochen Müller: First films for Berlinale 2020. In: Blickpunkt: Film, December 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Pinocchio. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed August 21, 2020.
  11. ↑ Kalle Somnitz, Silvia Bahl, Nathanael Brohammer and Anne Wotschke: Berlinale 2020: A Festival Report . In: programmkino.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (PDF; 177 KB)
  12. ^ Vittoria Scarpa: The David di Donatello Awards for Best Film and Best Director go to The Traitor. In: cineuropa.org, May 9, 2020.
  13. ↑ https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/389954