The lights and the shadows, the cross and the delight, the scandal and the martyrdom. In Here I laugh, the new film by Mario Martone in competition at the Venice Film Festival, the portrait of Eduardo Scarpetta, one of the most famous Neapolitan actors and playwrights ever, is not that of an indestructible man, but of a human hero and, at some point, does everything to keep an art and a company he created with the sweat of his hands and, above all, with the creativity of his head.
He film, which will arrive in the hall on 9 September, decides to start from a little known event: the dispute between Scarpetta and the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, who accuses him of having plagiarized and counterfeited one of his most famous works, Iorio’s daughter, to get rich at his expense.
In the period – we are at the beginning of the twentieth century – in which Scarpetta dominates the box office and is sold out not only in his Naples, but also in all the tours he organizes around Italy, the news of the trial is a blow that is anything but easy to digest and amortize: can art be completely free? And, above all, can an artist who has worked all his life to build a name evaporate because of a slander? Mario Martone tries to tell it with a pinch of poetry and a lot of humanity thanks to a very accurate set design and costume department and a first-rate cast that goes from Toni Servillo in the role of Scarpetta a Maria Nazionale; yes Cristiana Dell’Anna to the young man Eduardo Scarpetta – the Scarpetta of Misery and nobility is his great-great-grandfather -; from Antonia Truppo to Lino Musella.
Produced by Indigo Film with Rai Cinema in co-production with Tornasol, Here I laugh, of which we anticipate an exclusive clip above, tries to go beyond the portrait of a myth as an end in itself to tell the life of a man who indelibly contributed to reform the Neapolitan theater and its more traditional masks, designating in Felice Sciosciammocca the heir of Pulcinella. Among wives, companions, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children including Titina, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Martone, who wrote the screenplay together with Ippolita di Majo, also offers us a very accurate reconstruction of the first lawsuit on copyright in Italy, a theme that took years to arrive at defined and easy to identify contours.
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