Ennio (film)

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Ennio
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Film poster
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Written byGiuseppe Tornatore
Produced byGabriele Costa
Gianni Russo
Peter de Maegd
San Fu Maltha
CinematographyGiancarlo Leggeri
Fabio Zamarion
Edited byMassimo Quaglia
Annalisa Schillaci
Music by Ennio Morricone
Production
companies
Piano B Produzioni
Potemkino
Fu Works
Terras
Gaga.
Eurimages
Distributed by Music Box Films
Release date
  • 10 September 2021 (2021-09-10)(Venice)
Running time
150 minutes
CountriesItaly
Belgium
Japan
Netherlands
LanguagesItalian
English
Box office$4.3 million [1] [2]

Ennio: The Maestro (Italian: Ennio), also known as The Glance of Music, [3] is a 2021 documentary film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, celebrating the life and legacy of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on 6 July 2020. The film consists of interviews with directors, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, critics and collaborators who have worked with him or who have enjoyed him throughout his long career. [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Content

Giuseppe Tornatore, Oscar-winning director, pays tribute to his friend and collaborator Ennio Morricone, retracing the life and works of the Italian composer, from his debut with Sergio Leone to the Oscar Award for The Hateful Eight in 2016. The film comprises interviews with renowned directors and musicians, recordings of some of the maestro's acclaimed world tours, clips from some iconic films set to music by Morricone and exclusive footage of the scenes and places that defined Morricone's life. [7]

Interviewees

The following artists appear in the film: [8]

Release

The film premiered on 10 September 2021 at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. [9] It was released in Italian cinemas on 27 January 2022, [10] and digital platforms on 22 April 2022. [11]

The film was a box-office success in Italy. [12]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 90% of 48 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.7/10.The website's consensus reads: "Attenzione! The man who came out of post-war Italy to revolutionize the Western, Maestro Ennio Morricone, is masterfully captured in a documentary befitting his genius." [13] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [14]

A review in The Guardian stated: "his documentary represents a painstakingly detailed, fantastically entertaining, and profoundly exhausting deep dive into the career of the hyper-prolific Italian composer Ennio Morricone, known best perhaps for his orchestral scores for Sergio Leone (including the so-called Dollars Trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West), Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 – and a whole bunch of American films, ranging from the great (Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables) to the abominable (Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight)", [15] while another review in the same newspaper deemed that "As a piece of film-making, this documentary is cumbersome, repetitive and ploddingly conventional – all traits that were anathema to its subject, the late Italian film composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)." [16] A review in The Irish Times merged those divided assessments into one by saying "Tributes become repetitive but there’s much to enjoy in this documentary about Ennio Morricone". [17]

Awards

The film won the Nastro d'Argento 2022 for Best Documentary Film. [18]

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