{"id":5212,"date":"2017-01-11T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/en\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:42:53","slug":"the-young-pope-an-italian-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luccafilmfestival.it\/en\/the-young-pope-an-italian-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"The young pope: An italian triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, the italian director Paolo Sorrentino<\/strong> held a Masterclass at the Lucca film Festival-Europa where he spoke about his movies and his experience with famous actors. When a question about This must be the place<\/strong>\u2019 <\/i>protagonist was asked, he replied:<\/p>\n

“Sean Penn gave a lot to the movie. The great actors are able to go beyond the director. They can truly take possession of the character, how he moves, how he walks\u2026\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s easy to think the same about Jude Law<\/strong>\u2019s brilliant performance in The young pope<\/strong>, the successful tv series produced by Sky, Hbo and Canal+ and written and directed by the italian master.<\/p>\n

Lenny Belardo<\/strong> (the protagonist) is a Summa of Sorrentino\u2019s most typical characters and themes<\/strong>: he is disillusioned and cynical like Jep Gambardella, the iconic main character of The great beauty; <\/i>he is a bit of a rockstar, like the pop singer (with too much make up on) Cheyenne. Most of all, he is a powerful man like Giulio Andreotti, whose life was told by Sorrentino in Il Divo<\/strong>, <\/i>one of the biggest revelation of Cannes\u2019s 61th edition and he is, like all Sorrentino\u2019s characters, \u201cA lonely man\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although Lenny is a young, handsome, charming, diabolic, highly conservative, quite dangerous and manipulative pope, everyone around him sees him as a wise guide and, as sister Mary<\/strong> describes him, simply \u201cA Saint<\/strong>\u201d, capable of performing miracles. Normal life just doesn\u2019t suit him; he can\u2019t live like a normal man because he can\u2019t bear the weight of everyday feelings, such as love, joy and the pain that they can be the cause of, therefore he doesn\u2019t want to be a normal man anymore; he refuses to have an image or a human body and wishes to not be himself anymore but just the medium between god and the people, the divine and the ordinary. He claims to be like God:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne in three and three in one\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bbut nevertheless he is simply a conservative, religious man whose main task during his papacy is to make a \u201crevolution\u201d. Lenny Belardo is a contradiction<\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sorrentino\u2019s main character is not as humble as Pope Francis: he doesn\u2019t want the church to be as simple and poor as possibile, instead, he aims to be like a baroque age\u2019s pope<\/strong>, the ones who are remembered for making Rome one of the most beautiful city and also for being corrupted and barely interested in religious matters. During the whole series, Lenny has some struggle with is own faith and, in one remarkable episode, has some struggle with the pope clothes: he must decide what to wear at the meeting with the Cardinals, so he chooses a very beautiful, expensive and bright red dress, fills his fingers with rings, arms and body with jewels and he puts a kind of crown on top of his head, like the weird prelates in \u201c The holy fashion parade\u201d sequence in Roma<\/strong>, <\/i>a masterpiece of Sorrentino\u2019s source of inspiration, Federico Fellini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another peculiar character in The young pope<\/strong> and is played by the italian actor Silvio Orlando<\/strong>; his name is \u201c Cardinal Voiello<\/strong>\u201d and he is, above all, a Napoli F.C. supporter. Despite being Vatican\u2019s secretary of state, Voiello is more of an economist and financial expert than a cardinal: as a matter of fact, he brags that he is a man of great knowledge and capacity, he is most deeply proud to have, in his bookshelf, seventeen (dispregiative) books written about him by many journalists. His profound mutation during the whole season is incredible.<\/p>\n

Like Lenny and thanks to Lenny, he slowly becomes more of a \u201chuman\u201d and the \u00a0sort of \u201clove story\u201d between him and sister Mary, is a demonstration of it: he frequently tells her \u201cSister Mary, i think that you\u2019re even prettier with the night on\u201d. His love is not an \u201cmature\u201d type of love; he falls in love like kids do<\/strong>. For the love is, of course, nothing more than taking care and caring about someone. One of Sorrentino\u2019s cinema main topos is the mutation of the individual<\/strong>. We first know them as misanthropic, cynical, lonely and we can see, on the screen, in front our very own eyes, their mutation towards a more friendly, sweet, compassionate and often childish behavior towards the others. The urge of elementary feelings, like the company of a mother or of a friend, is the center of the italian director\u2019s opus.<\/p>\n

For us…<\/h2>\n

Sorrentino has managed to create a different kind of tv series<\/strong>, because he didn\u2019t not make a normal one. He shot a movie, a very long one that lasts ten hours and never bores us. The young pope <\/strong>is a meditation about power and religion, where every episode has a precise structure: the first part contains many dialogs and little action, while the ending delivers a spectacular event, like the meeting of the cardinals in the beautifully reconstructed Sistine Chapel. The director doesn\u2019t give up on his style<\/strong>; the camera moves as smoothly as in others Sorrentino\u2019s movies with both long uncut scene, like the talk with Cardinal spencer and with the distinctive tracking shots.<\/p>\n

The young pope<\/strong> can lead the way to other European\u2019s directors Project; In fact, worldwide collaborations and co-production like the one we talked about, could be the future of television as they would partially put an end to America\u2019s television series Hegemony. European cinema authors are becoming more famous year after year a<\/strong>nd a worldwide production can be a major help for a director in order to be known all over the world.<\/p>\n

The only thing we have to do now is to wait for season two<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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