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Despite a beautiful score and nice camera work, I found "Sconosciuta" very disappointing and seriously doubt it will be nominated for an Oscar (especially since "Leggenda" and "Malena," his greatest films by a mile, weren't). With that said, as a filmmaker who has made some very good films over the years, I will always look forward to his next. "Baaria" sounds like a more personal project, which is always a good sign.Awaiting a nomination to the Oscar, Tornatore films in his native Sicily
ANSA ROME.- Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, Oscar winner for Best Foreign film, "Cinema Paradiso", and present 2008 Italian candidate for "La sconosciuta", today confirmed to have begun his "most personal" project in his native Sicily.
He discussed that the filming of "Baaria" will begin on Monday around Bagheria, the city near Palermo where he was born 51 years ago, and in Tunisia.
"It is a matter of a project that wanted to do inside ten years, but the producers, enthusiastic, they insisted so that did it now instead of 'Leningrad'", admitted Tornatore, known by being stingy at the moment of to speak of its projects, and a lot more when touches part of its biography.
Tornatore reported that the plot elapses between the decades of the 30 and from the 60 of last century, "with environments, suggestions and personages of my infancy and of some of the ones that I have known for the stories of my more elderly kin".
"But although they will be inspired in real people will be personages invented of a film choir that will include 200 actors, a few famous, and many not professional that will give greater realism to the history", added, completely cured of the injuries suffered when was assaulted in a Roman neighborhood, in September.
"Baaria" is one of the many names of its Bagheria native, by-product of the Arab and that remained in the local dialect, and Tornatore promises that besides the present emotion in all its movies "there will be also a lot of irony".
With this it film, Tornatore returns to the Sicily that launched it to the fame with "Cinema Paradiso".
"Me agreement that the great writer Leonardo Sciascia telephoned me after to have seen and told me, 'Peppuccio, continues doing movies on Sicily and you will not mistake never'", recalled the filmmaker, that recognizes not to have followed so al foot of the letter that counsel.
For the director "to film is a pleasure, but not one must think that when do not I film I am without doing nothing: all the contrary thing, always I am doing something, mounting a film or preparing it, thinking up hyphens and thinking about actors and places of filming".
"Baaria" is an Italian-French coproduction and the filming will last 15 weeks, the double one that a normal Italian movie.
