tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post8037383566881814602..comments2024-03-24T08:30:43.258+01:00Comments on FLY HIGH!: PERIOD & MORE PERIOD - AT THE CINEMA: IL GIOVANE FAVOLOSO Maria Graziahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876779286144473782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-81377739268079916502014-10-17T16:51:30.175+02:002014-10-17T16:51:30.175+02:00Thanks for sharing your thoughts here, Cecilia. I ...Thanks for sharing your thoughts here, Cecilia. I too felt Martone missed the occasion to do justice to such a great poet, even though for reasons different from yours, as I wrote in my post. <br />Though I didn't mention it in my review, I too went on thinking about Ben Whishaw's Keats, while watching this film. The comparison was inevitable and, of course, I liked Jane Campion's "Bright Star" so much more!<br />I tried to warn my colleagues about the possibility that this movie is not exactly the way they can bring our students to love Leopardi but they insist on wishing them to see it. <br />Fingers crossed!Maria Graziahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876779286144473782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114395886235179043.post-53008499801791726742014-10-17T16:31:01.161+02:002014-10-17T16:31:01.161+02:00As I wrote you on facebook, I watched this movie y...As I wrote you on facebook, I watched this movie yesterday, and I have mixed feelings toward it. The aspect I liked the less was Germano himself: he was too grotesque, riduculous, he looked more like a parody of Leopardi than Leopardi himself, with his huge wild eyes and all the physical quirks. Ben Whishaw interpreting Keats in Jane Campion's Bright Star came to my mind, and I kept comparing the two actors. Where Whishaw seemed able to convey the sheer lyricism and melancholy of Keats, I did not feel a real melancholy in Germano: just someone who overstressed Leopardi's hump. Not to mention that he wasn't able to read Leopardi's poems as Whishaw did with Keats'.<br /><br />Unlike you, I am not a particular fan of Leopardi - he was never in the list of my favourite poets - but I don't think this movie did justice to his thoughts, neither expressed the core notions of Leopardi's poems (the longing, the memory, the infinite etc etc.) And I don't know if high school students who will watch this movie would feel compelled to read more about Leopardi.<br /><br />My favourite characters were actually Monaldo and Adelaide :DCeciliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15203553617274203523noreply@blogger.com