Solino
©
Cycle de cinéma
Le 22 Septembre 2016
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Cinéma/TV
Accra – Ghana
English
Born in 1973 in Hamburg, Fatih Akin belongs to the first generation of children born to Turkish immigrants. He introduced this viewpoint to German cinema with works such as KURZ UND SCHMERZLOS (1998) and IM JULI (2000), his first two, highly successful feature films. He drew inspiration for these stories from his own life experiences and played with both gangster and romantic film genres, thus creating his own idiosyncratic blend of auteur and genre cinema.
Akin entered uncharted territory with SOLINO: it was the first film he had made without writing the script himself, and it was the story of an Italian immigrant family. In 2002 Akin did not speak a word of Italian. In spite of this he managed to convince renowned scriptwriter Ruth Thomas (German Screenplay Award for GLOOMY SUNDAY, Grimme Award for ROMEO) that he was the right director for the project: “SOLINO tells the tale of Gigi, an immigrant child who becomes a filmmaker. I’m Gigi!”
SOLINO’s opening scenes depict the Amato family in 1964 in their hometown, an idyllic Apullian village called Solino. In the style of a light, dreamy Italian comedy, Akin paints a pretty, nostalgic picture-postcard image of village life and unravels loosely-connected sequences in the manner of a childhood memory: the pranks of the two Amato boys, Gigi, aged 8, and Giancarlo, aged 10; a subtly sketched childhood romance; a sparrow fluttering through the room where their Grandpa is lying on his deathbed, rolling his eyes in a more comic than tragic fashion. Papa Romano (Gigi Savoia) and Mama Rosa (Antonella Attili), decide to put a long-standing plan into action and board the train to Germany, drawn by the promise of the economic miracle and full employment.
Akin entered uncharted territory with SOLINO: it was the first film he had made without writing the script himself, and it was the story of an Italian immigrant family. In 2002 Akin did not speak a word of Italian. In spite of this he managed to convince renowned scriptwriter Ruth Thomas (German Screenplay Award for GLOOMY SUNDAY, Grimme Award for ROMEO) that he was the right director for the project: “SOLINO tells the tale of Gigi, an immigrant child who becomes a filmmaker. I’m Gigi!”
SOLINO’s opening scenes depict the Amato family in 1964 in their hometown, an idyllic Apullian village called Solino. In the style of a light, dreamy Italian comedy, Akin paints a pretty, nostalgic picture-postcard image of village life and unravels loosely-connected sequences in the manner of a childhood memory: the pranks of the two Amato boys, Gigi, aged 8, and Giancarlo, aged 10; a subtly sketched childhood romance; a sparrow fluttering through the room where their Grandpa is lying on his deathbed, rolling his eyes in a more comic than tragic fashion. Papa Romano (Gigi Savoia) and Mama Rosa (Antonella Attili), decide to put a long-standing plan into action and board the train to Germany, drawn by the promise of the economic miracle and full employment.
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