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"his most intimate and personal film" - L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO
PLOT: 1912: Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves Bologna for his funeral, carrying students, officials, and relatives, including his sister Maria, known as Mariù. The journey reflects the mourning of the town, where people of all social classes pay homage to the poet. Through Mariù's memories, we learn about Giovanni's life: his father's assassination, his youth marked by poverty, his political commitment, and his complicated relationship with Giosuè Carducci. Despite personal and political difficulties, he graduates and is reunited with his sisters after years. They live together, but the family dynamics are tense: Ida, more independent, leaves her brother to seek a life of her own. Giovanni, famous but unhappy, retreats with Mariù to Castelvecchio, where the train taking him to his burial passes through a surreal space, with mysterious apparitions, as in his poems.
CAST: Federico Cesari, Benedetta Porcaroli, Liliana Bottone,Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Luca Maria Vannuccini, Sandra Ceccarelli, Fausto Paravidino
YEAR: 2025
LENGTH: 110 min.
GENRE: Biographical
RATING: USA: no rating
TIMES: St. Louis: April 17, 7:00 p.m. ***North American premiere***
  Detroit: April 18, 7:30 p.m.
 
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DIRECTOR'S NOTES:    
Giuseppe Piccioni was born in 1953 in Ascoli Piceno. After graduating with a degree in sociology from the University of Urbino, he completed his first full length film in 1987: Il grande Blek. He won the David di Donatello Best Screenplay award for Fuori dal mondo and a Nastro d’argento Best Short award for Preghiera della sera.

Regarding his films, Piccioni said: "I love this poet and everything he invented about metrics, everything he studied, everything he knew about Virgil and Horace, and I think his pain, though intense, was embedded in a robust discipline, in a great expressive prolificacy. I want to say that we managed to capture some moments of joy in Zvanì. Moreover, Pascoli, especially during his university years, seems to have been a person of great joy and good company. He was a pleasant, sociable, affable boy, full of jokes and pranks, but always burdened by the memory of his father."		 Piccioni
DISTRIBUTOR: Memo FIlms Srl, Vicolo S, Maria alla Porta, 1, Milan