Ennio (2021)
Country: IT/BEL/NL/JAP/CHI/GER
Technical: col/2.39:1 156m
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Ennio Morricone and his many collaborators
Synopsis:
An exhaustive look at the career of the great film composer: from his trumpeting days at the conservatoire, through his arrangements for the RCA pop label to his association with Sergio Leone and others, Ennio muses on his aspiration to be taken seriously by his academic superiors, and his ambivalent relationship to the craft he ultimately turned into an art form of its own.
Review:
Tornatore wisely eschews critics and musicologists (except Ennio himself, who invaluably talks at length), choosing instead fellow musicians, successors and directors with whom Morricone sustained lengthy working relationships. It is a while before we get into film, but the arrangement period is important for an assessment of his later work for the screen, which is copiously referenced, particularly the less well known domestic work. The results are cleverly edited to showcase the special nature of this talent, for whom the word genius is surely appropriate. A handsome package which in spite of its repetitions more than once brings a tear to the eye.
Country: IT/BEL/NL/JAP/CHI/GER
Technical: col/2.39:1 156m
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Ennio Morricone and his many collaborators
Synopsis:
An exhaustive look at the career of the great film composer: from his trumpeting days at the conservatoire, through his arrangements for the RCA pop label to his association with Sergio Leone and others, Ennio muses on his aspiration to be taken seriously by his academic superiors, and his ambivalent relationship to the craft he ultimately turned into an art form of its own.
Review:
Tornatore wisely eschews critics and musicologists (except Ennio himself, who invaluably talks at length), choosing instead fellow musicians, successors and directors with whom Morricone sustained lengthy working relationships. It is a while before we get into film, but the arrangement period is important for an assessment of his later work for the screen, which is copiously referenced, particularly the less well known domestic work. The results are cleverly edited to showcase the special nature of this talent, for whom the word genius is surely appropriate. A handsome package which in spite of its repetitions more than once brings a tear to the eye.
Country: IT/BEL/NL/JAP/CHI/GER
Technical: col/2.39:1 156m
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Ennio Morricone and his many collaborators
Synopsis:
An exhaustive look at the career of the great film composer: from his trumpeting days at the conservatoire, through his arrangements for the RCA pop label to his association with Sergio Leone and others, Ennio muses on his aspiration to be taken seriously by his academic superiors, and his ambivalent relationship to the craft he ultimately turned into an art form of its own.
Review:
Tornatore wisely eschews critics and musicologists (except Ennio himself, who invaluably talks at length), choosing instead fellow musicians, successors and directors with whom Morricone sustained lengthy working relationships. It is a while before we get into film, but the arrangement period is important for an assessment of his later work for the screen, which is copiously referenced, particularly the less well known domestic work. The results are cleverly edited to showcase the special nature of this talent, for whom the word genius is surely appropriate. A handsome package which in spite of its repetitions more than once brings a tear to the eye.