“With this film I finally went out on the streets of my Naples which also recalls in its name, as New Polis, New York. Two great cities where the underground is strong and certainly not the mainstream”.
This is how Marco D'Amore talks about Magic Naples special event at the cinema on December 5th, 6th and 7th distributed by Vision Distributionn, and presented today in preview out of competition at the 40th edition of the Turin Film Festival.
Half docu and half fiction, the film is a spontaneous journey through Naples among its many mysteries, its many tragedies, and above all its popular culture ready to absorb everything without ever contaminating itself. In Napoli Magica, a Sky Original film, produced by Sky and Mad Entertainment in collaboration with Vision Distribution and with the subject and screenplay by D'Amore and Francesco Ghiaccio, we find ourselves in its undercurrents, dug for three thousand years, to listen to ghosts and voices of the dead.
We then go to the Fontanelle cemetery, to Castel dell'Ovo, to the esoteric chapel of the Veiled Christ, in Catacombs of San Gaudioso and then myths and traditions are told from the siren Parthenope, to the munaciello, up to the pezzentelle souls and Pulcinella. “Napoli Magica – D'Amore underlines today in Turin – is a film without grammar, it has no genres, for me any type of language is valid, even horror, I love a cinema without chains”.
This city continues D'Amore, the Cyrus DiMarzio in the TV series Gomorrah: “He has a strong cultural identity. If you talk to a ten-year-old child you discover that he knows very well who he is, for example, Edward DeFilippo. Naples for me was also exile, I left at eighteen and returned at thirty to make Gomorrah. There I told the story of the darkness of this city while in this I tell it in all its complexity”.
And again the director-actor against stereotypes about Naples:“It is not at all a place of singing and play, as it is often portrayed, but rather a city of science where there was the school of Archimedes, but also the city of Giambattista Vico and Benedetto Croce”.
Is Naples also a political city? "Yes, it is a city that has decided to become extinct and that strongly opposes progress. It is very political, in the Pasolinian sense, preserving its diversity, a sort of bulwark, a small outpost of revolutionary and never reactionary civilization." In the future? "I am preparing, as director and actor, another film that will start in February and will still be on Napoli".
Article published on November 26, 2022 - 16:00
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