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Edoardo De Angelis, a young Italian director and screenwriter, but with a career already full of international awards behind, answered some questions on the legacy of the Neorealism in the today’s cinema.
The result is a conversation that has ranged from the influence of the distribution market on the creative process to the availment of non professional actors.
By defining the first feature film as a director and screenwriter of De Angelis, Mozzarella Stories (2011), the Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica spoke of “Visionary Talent.”
Modern elements of Neorealism that can be regained today?
According to Edoardo De Angelis Neorealism still teaches us to look at reality with a special carefulness. Its modernity is to have represented for the first time the unvarnished reality, which nowadays is indispensable. Neorealism is a precious heritage for the film-makers of today that they should draw with both hands, and never consider as a burden but as an opportunity.
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And what about the availment of non professional actors?
Edoardo De Angelis has no foreclosure, any valid tool for the narrative level is a resource.
Finally, with regard to market influences on the artistic side of his job, De Angelis claims the need to balance the constraints of the distribution with the freedom of expression, which he considers the only guarantee to create a high quality product.
