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Interview with Alessandro Rais. Neorealism beyond the stereotypes.

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Alessandro Rais, Film historian, founder of the Sicily Film Commission and currently Department Director of Tourism, Sport and Entertainment of the Sicilian Region, gave us during this interview an interesting  lesson on Neorealism.


We asked Alessandro Rais to frame the historical contribution given by Italian Neorealism
to the worldwide cinematography and he answered with great competence and generosity.
What emerged was a reflection full of references, sometimes unusual, but very useful for understanding the Italian film movement that deeply conditioned the world’s collective imaginary.

Which elements of Neorealism the contemporary cinema should regain?

Alessandro Rais warns us from the stereotypes linked to Neorealism, with regard to the actors taken from the street or the sets taken only from reality. According to the Italian historian of cinema the distinctive elements of Neorealism must be tracked down elsewhere, that is to say in the urgency to get away from all the dogmas of the time, and even in the economic hardship and lack of means.

Alessandro Rais goes further, according to him the impediments that the neorealistic productions met on their way were the factors that have most influenced the poetry of the film-makers of Neorealism, and than became their strenght.
The contemporary film productions should regain that strength that today perhaps belongs only to the best forms of documentary, and shoud also overcome the present day passivity of the market.
At the end of the interview Rais, quoting ironically Steve Jobs, gives a funny definition of Neorealism that begins with: Hungry, Poor and …

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