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How Modern Cinema is still connected to Neorealism?
During the 70° Venice Film Festival, we asked Stefano Rulli, President of the Experimental Cinematography Centre Foundation (Rome), divided into: the National Film Archive, one of the most important movie archives in the world, and the National Film School, which, for over seventy-five years has provided high standards of training for professions in the world of cinema.
If the essence of Neorealism is a sort of ability to look at things with an innocent eye, according to the opinion of Stefano Rulli, the Modern Cinema from around the world could always draw on this peculiar Italian heritage.
Neorealism is born when our Cinema, at the end of Fascism, could finally tell the reality without conditionings to an audience that rediscovered himself as a Nation; now it became a reference point for many young foreign cinematographies with a similar need.
Starting from Iran to China and everywhere is still deep the necessity to tell, describe and look to many things of the reality, the Visconti’s and Rossellini’s lesson is always current.
And between Neorealism and today’s Italian Cinema are there still connections?
Stefano Rulli agrees and spots them especially in those films of young directors, in competition at the Venice Film Festival, who have tried to move from documentary to fiction films with actors, through a process where the boundaries between these two ways of filming are more blurred.
The complexity of present-day Italian society needs directors with an honest approach and facing with neorealistic lesson should be always useful.
