Mario Martone Previews his Award Winning Film “Nostalgia’ in New York

Mario Martone arrived in New York to preview his award-winning film “Nostalgia’. The viewing comes to be after the film received a nomination for the Oscars with the members of the Academy, as well as for the inauguration of the seventh edition of the Italy on Screen Today Festival.

While the film revolves around a friendship that ends in crime, Martone hoped to transmit a message of hope, not simply drama. Alongside this, he wanted to show the audience a side of Naples that many don’t have the opportunity to see. Mario explains that they “made it in the district of the films of Totò and De Sica, fascinating and unknown, impracticable until recently, I who am Neapolitan did not know it, the catacombs were closed, and I wanted to restore their meaning, show the ancient stones, almost to the odors. Show the public a Naples that is both faithful to the past, but already in the future, a sort of prototype of the Italy of tomorrow. Because Neapolitans and immigrants live there without social otherness.”

Mario also details that when proposed the script by the producer Luciano Stella, he had the opportunity to take a trip to Naples, but also within himself. With that he could “maybe could get the spectators to do it too. And I liked the fact that the protagonist is not a hero, his wandering around the city is an attempt to understand, not to impose, but to listen, to absorb. His is an almost necessary complacency in this human, social and political moment.”

With the North American rights of the film being acquired by Breaking Glass Pictures, the film is set to be released in theaters in early 2023.

-Esther Marcos