A retrospective film festival Omaggio a Massimo Troisi, ‘o miracolo napoletano’
Directed by Massimo Troisi (Comedy, Italy 1981 – 109’ min. – language: Italian, subtitles in English)
Massimo Troisi started his brilliant film career with Ricomincio da tre. This film brought about a breath of fresh air in the lethargic Italian cinema world of the time. Ricomincio da tre was a huge success with both public and critics, so much so that it was shown in cinemas for a very long time. And it is with this film that the Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta is inaugurating this long retrospective in honour of this amazing Neapolitan “miracle”.
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people. He goes to Florence, to his aunt’s home. In a clinic, where he goes by chance, he meets Martha and falls in love with her. After a series of funny situations (an old friend from the relentless chatter coming from Naples and the mature aunt and her elderly lover, a young American priest who wants to involve him in his visits to evangelical force, the encounter with Riccardino, a young man frustrated by an oppressive mother and the father waiting for the miracle of re-growth of an amputated hand, etc.) Gaetano decides to stay in Florence and to act as father to Martha’s son, even if the girl does not want to disclose the exact name of the father.