From 13 April, MANN – Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli will host the exhibition “È stata la mano di Dio – Immagini dal set”: 51 photographs taken by Gianni Fiorito on the set of Sorrentino’s film. The exhibit, curated by Maria Savarese, was financed by Regione Campania and produced by FCRC in collaboration with the Museo Archeologico di Napoli. It will be on display in the Sala del Toro Farnese until 5 September 2022.
Naples is the star of the latest film from Paolo Sorrentino who narrates a very personal story where past and present, memory and reality chase each other. The photographs on display do not simply repropose the setting of a scene nor report from backstage but are something of a journey into the Oscar-winning director’s personal “Great Beauty”. Cameras, for both film and stills, race from Marechiaro to Posillipo, from Vomero to the Quartieri Spagnoli, from the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium to piazza del Plebiscito. And to all the places beloved by Sorrentino like Capri, the Sorrento coast, the island of Stromboli.
Another important aspect of the exhibition is Fiorito’s themed presentation: San Gennaro and o’ munaciello, Naples in the 1980s, family, passion, the search for happiness, cinema, perseverance, offer an itinerary that unveils a world balanced between melancholy remembrance and contemporary reality. Imagination protects from nostalgia and the attempt to evoke through longing those who have gone and are no longer here.
“È stata la mano di Dio – Immagini dal set” is also a display of faces and bodies, those that give life to the film. It opens new windows both onto Sorrentino’s inner world – which invests the detail with universality – and Naples, a metropolis capable of continuous renewal while conserving an unchanged identity.
“We welcomed with great pleasure the idea of a photographic exhibition from the set of “Hand of God”, a film that marked a great director’s return home twenty years from his debut, an intimate and personal story that he has rendered universal and that has gone forth from Naples to conquer the audiences of the world – commented Titta Fiore, President of Fondazione Film Commission Regione Campania – This exhibition, which pays tribute to the talent of an internationally-recognised director and to the “great beauty” of Naples, is also an important opportunity for FCRC to highlight the great maturity of the region’s audio-visual industry. The photos from Paolo Sorrentino’s set illustrate the appeal of the territory and the reliability of its artists and professionals, and also, indirectly, its ability to welcome complex production processes thanks to an efficient regional system that is giving very positive results as it develops and evolves.”
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