interview with Marco Amenta, director of THE REBEL SICILIAN
Tuesday, November 30, 2007 I had the ' opportunity to make an 'interesting interview that I want to read all passionate readers of this newspaper.
I met the director, Marco Amenta, a person quite at hand, which is not by air, courageous, determined, sincere and simple. During these months, he toured the scene of his film, THE SICILIAN REBEL, in my country, Palazzo Adriano. He too was left fascinated by the charming Piazza Umberto I, already used by other directors as excellent set cinemtografico, among others, Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso, with its (1988) and Damiano Damiani, with a man on his knees (1979 ). I wanted to learn more about the work of Amenta and to introduce the subject of his film and he proved to be extremely available giving me this interview after a tiring day of shooting:
- What is the name and where it comes from?
My name is Marco Amenta, I was born in Palermo and I have lived in France for ten years, I returned to live in a little 'to Palermo and then to Rome. I studied and worked in Paris as a photographer or photojournalist of war during the conflict in Bosnia, I made the reportage in Cuba and Africa, then I started to do a photojournalist, reporter for the Italian and French newspapers, and thereafter I moved to documentaries ever in Bosnia, and then on the Mafia, the last is the ghost of Corleone, Provenzano on the lam. During this time I went to the movies and this is my first feature film.
- So this film will be released at the cinema?
It will be released at the cinema.
I invite the young guys like you to leave to work outside, in another city because it is important to move away a little boy 'by his family and his environment, trying to know themselves and to find their own way. Away from family is important because you can really find your size, because usually by their families and their country has put even unconsciously, even the best parents in the world, who love you and let you do whatever you want, next they're showing them, are what they see in you. But when you're on your own personal freedom, personal freedom and you can express yourself, you can really understand who you are and what want, being away from people who know you. Because growing up around people that you always know you identifies with the image of what others think you are. For example: They want you to be so placed in good, they want you to do your father as a carpenter? Well, you do that! But if you go to one side only can be free. Maybe instead of being a scholar are different, instead of making the carpenter you may want to be a painter, or whatever ... the photographer, a builder ... well, something else and you do not feel forced, but just psychologically free.
So it is important that children do go to an out of work or study, even making sacrifices with little money. This will form and gives you the strength and discipline and then pass the tests of life.
For me it was very important to go a dozen years in Paris alone, but then I came back to be with my family.
- Why did you choose Palazzo Adriano as a movie set?
Because I made the tour of Sicily and when I saw this place I fell in love. I was stunned, is a surreal place, halfway between the western and Sicily.
This white, this space, this silence, these large churches are facing each other, the fountain ... give a very surreal dimension, especially the silence. Because I do not want in my films represent the pure reality, but a reality altered, an invented reality of the world of film. So I invented this surreal country that is called "Balata" and that is Palazzo Adriano. I changed the name of the country not to refer, as it is also a story of the mafia, however, clearly is building and will be easy to recognize even if it is transformed into a reality, since we had a particular stock, we have chosen the lights of a class type and at certain times. You will see that it is another reality, because in a film, in my opinion, we need to create another dimension in which you enter the audience during the hour and a half film. You do travel this world you've created, with all the emotions that you can try. Then he goes out and back to reality, but we must know it to travel, do so in a dream world invented.
- Can you give me a quick review of the film?
The story is about a girl who grew up in a family she considered perfect, with a good father, good and brave, respected and loved by the whole country, and a mother with whom she has conflicts. Later they are killed both the father and the brother and then she would take revenge at all costs, turning to justice. Along the way meet a judge who gradually will show the true personality of his father and will tell that it was not just the mythical figure she imagined, but it was something different and then you will have to chart a new path, perceiving and reread his childhood in a different way, to a radical change in his personality. She now wants to escape from this reality as part of terror, death and murder, goes in search of a better life. It is positive that the girl tries to escape from a male universe, death, then that is the mafia itself, to be free. But it does not matter if it's the mafia, it is a universe of evil and violence. It is therefore a teenage girl who runs away to live by their size and become what it is.
Traveling rediscovers her femininity, her body, her sensuality, she meets the love, bumps into new values \u200b\u200bsuch as justice and honesty. In short, she discovers herself and what it is.
- So the mafia is the main subject of the film?
The mafia backdrop.
is the story of a teenage girl and the mob is ... a scene. She is fighting against a hidden power, terrifying, violent, could be the mafia, the Nazis, any dictatorship of the world, not what's important. This young man fighting against these negative values \u200b\u200bto free themselves and live in a dimension of justice and honesty.
- She has worked with many people of the Palace: How did you?
with people very well because it is made available, has helped us, we have rented houses, has helped to find places for some scenes, pieces of scenery, furniture and tools. Many actors have some role in the occurrence of other smaller players like Michael Gargano, who made a beautiful interpretation of a farm to which they are made of the violence and the child is killed, some truly moving. Another good part, which I love very much, was one sung by "u zu 'Sariddu" (Rosario Noto), who has also made available its tools; I remember others, like Carmelo Masaracchia.
- It was difficult for her to enter the world of cinema?
Yes, it was difficult because you have to win everything little by little, nobody gives you anything and my parents have never been in this business. I won everything with great effort, work and sacrifice. But it is a passion for me, I love this job, although it has been and continues to be difficult and even though every day is a battle, however, doing this work with passion almost never weary.
- Is there anyone that gives inspiration, I know ... some director?
Well ... I really like Kubrick, David Lynch, Fellini and Sergio Leone.
- It was hard to find the right person for the main character?
Look, in reality, perhaps during the first or second audition that we did we found it was very good. But, you know ... when you get it right away, you say, "well, try again!" Because you do not seem real. So we did a lot of auditions because producers wanted to try again, but I was convinced of this choice from the beginning, I told him to do so for other specimens remove all doubt. When I saw the first time I said, 'Oh my God it's you, it is so. " During the first test, improvising, it was perfect, was in character. Veronica is a very good girl, pretty, serious, is a great person and he is studying, which is very important. This is not to pretend to be great actress and not a whim, humility is a very important quality.
However, almost all the actors of this film have experienced deep see through their eyes.
- Well, I think that I concluded the interview, if you want to add something ...
I am interested in making films about characters who are looking for a road, who have a dream, a goal in life and try to change their destiny, out of the path that was set before them and seek their way -Which can then be anything, a normal life ... - These are the people that I'm interested in telling, perhaps because my life has been characterized by a continuous search of my own way.
When I went to university, I enrolled in architecture and did not understand anything in mathematics and at one point I asked: "But I want to be a lifetime to do this?". Then one day I decided to leave, to leave what I did not do and I went to France to pursue what was my dream.
In 1992, at the time. I was in the military, I saw the film Cinema Paradiso, which I really enjoyed and helped much to my training. In fact, I do not think it's just a coincidence that this film has decided to turn right at the palace, indeed there are many events that make me believe that it is not just a coincidence. For example, the house where I live for now is being Mario D'Aleo, dedicated to this policeman murdered by the Mafia and who left a mark on my personality. I heard a lot since his death, that I was almost a protagonist. The balcony of my house in Palermo looks right on the street in which this police officer was killed and on the day of the murder me and my family we were at home. As soon as we heard the shots looking out to see what had happened and we saw the cars go away and the policeman lying on the ground. Arriving at the palace, in fact, I was very much bewildered to read the street name.
's why I think it is not just a coincidence of being in this beautiful village.
Epiphany Earley 2007
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