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Marco Risi
was born on 4 June 1951. He made his debut in cinema in 1982 with I’m Going to Live by Myself, followed by two other comedies with Jerry Calà. With Soldiers 365 Days Before Discharge (1987), he shifted towards a civil commitment that continued with Forever Mery (1989), Boys on the Outside (1990), The Rubber Wall (1991) and The Gang (1994). The grotesque The Last New Year, based on the novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, was released in 1998. In the 2000s he produced, among others, Three Wives, Maradona – The Hand of God and Fort Apache Napoli, which focuses on the dramatic events that saw young journalist Giancarlo Siani killed by the camorra.
Museum Piazza – free entrance until full capacity
10 individual seats reserved for myMAXXI cardholders writing to mymaxxi@fondazionemaxxi.it, by the day before the event
“My dad used to speak about himself, too. He would tell you he didn’t, but he did speak about himself. All you had to do was look and understand. In fact, just look and understand. That’s another plus of cinema: it’s there! Even when you’re not there any longer”.
Dino Risi is the director who enriched the so-called “Italian comedy” with stories, emotions and images. Marco Risi is the young man who challenged his father on his own ground and paved his own way. Can one be a son and also perceive the father as a master?
The result is a story at the crossroads of (cinema) epic and comedy: it soon becomes clear that the vitality of cinema between the 1950s and 1960s depended on an atmosphere of understanding, cohesion, perhaps even conflict, but everyone – everyone – was on the same stage.
In conversation with
Malcom Pagani journalist and writer
Marco Risi