Massimiliano Gallo is one of the actors of the moment: only in the last season did it win both the Silver Ribbon and the Golden Ciak. Protagonist of Alessandro Gassmann’s film The great silence (presented at the Venice Film Festival), is part of the cast of It was the hand of God, a film signed by Paolo Sorrentino and nominated for the next Oscars (also applauded by Robert De Niro). In March he will be the protagonist of the series Melancholy on Rai Uno, the homonymous lawyer told by Diego De Silva in the novels published by Einaudi. The new challenge of the Neapolitan artist, however, is called A shop window overlooking the seathe documentary film that marks the debut behind the cameraexpected soon on Sky Arte.
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The project inaugurates a series of feature films that have as their theme made in Italy excellence. Through a journey in the tricolor costume, Gallo wants to rediscover and enhance the stories that have made Italy great, often starting from impossible dreams and few means.
It began with the tale of the king of ties, E. Marinella, which in 108 years has dressed princes, kings and politicians from all over the world focusing on craftsmanship. The title of the docufilm tells how the shop of just 22 square meters overlooks the Gulf of Naples and has managed to embody the Neapolitan spirit.
Gallo did not limit himself to stringing interviews and anecdotes, he reconstructed historical events, such as plagues and battles, and also drew from the archives of the Istituto Luce to tell the evolution and change of taste and the very concept of elegance. History, architecture, geography, legend and food and wine inspirations come together as in a theatrical piece. He tells it to Vanity Fair during the national premiere in the Campania capital, together with the author of the lyrics Francesco Pinto and the music Remo Anzovino and the cast. His wife Shalana Santana plays the siren Partenope, founder of Naples; Nunzia Schiano plays one of the seamstresses of the artisan workshop, Gennaro Di Biase embodies the Neapolitan noble, while Peppino di Capri offers his music at the service of the Feast of the Kings.
Massimiliano, what is the multisensory nature of the story due to?
“I never stopped to think what was the right means to convey this story, I wanted to tell a piece of Italian costume in various languages, without worrying that it fell into one genre rather than the other”.
What is your personal relationship with fashion?
«I always rely on Neapolitan tailoring to celebrate my origins and show a beauty capable of transmitting important values. The way a garment is made speaks volumes about the love it conveys. And Italy is made up of small businesses that I can’t wait to discover ».
The earliest memory of a tie?
“When I was a boy I didn’t buy them, I prefer to borrow them from my dad.”
Do you prefer to give them today?
«I’m superstitious and superstitious, so I always aim for good things for gifts. I consider myself an esthete who pays attention to attention to detail. Beauty, however, is not about proportions, but about attention to detail ».
Are there homages to your teacher Paolo Sorrentino in the staging of the docufilm?
«Its aesthetics entered the world through the main door and the presence of It was the hand of God in the five of the Academy Award. This is an intimate and personal story and I’m glad he picked me from the cast of actors he trusts. She has always talked about beauty, which I try to look at, even if her is a unique cinematographic construction ».
Doesn’t making your debut behind the camera with a story about your hometown become too much pressure?
“I wanted to start with a female city, which must be pampered, a symbol of grace and beauty because you have to deserve to be Neapolitan”.
Yet she chose a Brazilian actress as her mermaid …
«Shalana is perfect to embody Partenope because it represents hospitality, a set of different cultures that mixes different canons. The hair also has a white lock because Naples is new, but also ancient ».
Do you have a memory linked to local crafts?
«When I was a child in the theater I played Pulcinella’s son with a papier-mâché mask that had been ruined over time. To reward me, my parents decided to give me one in leather, made to measure. I was 10-11 years old and to take the measurements I went to the home of the craftsman who made it by modeling it on my face ».
Do you still have it as a memory?
“Perhaps! She ate it the dog. Fortunately, that memory still remains alive in me, along with other direct experiences with local artisans. I carve wood, but I still have the image of a man who made wigs by hand for the statues of the Madonna carved in my memory. It took him between 3 and 4 months to make one because he went to the hairdressers in the area to buy real hair. Looking closely at that painstaking industriousness taught me a lot about the meaning of work ».
Aren’t you afraid of the spot effect?
«Not at all, because the docufilm stages an experience, a world of values, not a simple accessory and wants to tell how this unique miracle is born, which passes through decades of history, various generations and many sacrifices. Italy is dotted with artisan stories and my desire is to bring them to light in order to preserve them ».
Source: Vanity Fair
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