Teatro delle Albe in France with “5 fotogrammi per Bernardo Bertolucci”
5 fotogrammi per Bernardo Bertolucci (5 frames for Bernardo Bertolucci) is a dedication, a memory in the form of a miniature, woven by Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli starting from Bernardo Bertolucci’s artistic autobiography Il mistero del cinema (La nave di Teseo), and inlaid with images and frames from his films.
It is a journey in 5 fragments that recalls the rhythm Bertolucci gave to his story, proceeding by temporal and imaginative leaps. It starts in Casarola – real and fabulous, landscape of the soul – and crosses over into Montanari’s Campiano – “which is just as much a hole, something you can't find on maps" – through a germination from the poem Lus (Light) by Nevio Spadoni, centred on the clairvoyant Bêlda, in the Romagna dialect that Montanari uses as stage language, taking it around the world.
A fragment from the Divine Comedy is also grafted onto the "original plant" of Bertolucci's memoirs and his words on the "mystery": the story Ulysses tells Dante about his journey beyond the limits of reason, the mad flight into the unknown.
The voices of this "miniature" are a single voice that can contain innumerable ones, that of Ermanna Montanari "creature of the labyrinth" as Marco Belpoliti defined her: air, fire, sound, matter.
5 fotogrammi per Bernardo Bertolucci premiered at the "Milanesiana" by Elisabetta Sgarbi in summer 2021 and is being presented to the French public for the first time on November 30 (7 pm), in Paris.
The event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and is supported by Emilia-Romagna Region and ATER Fondazione.
Italian Cultural Institute in Paris
