Shakespeare al cinema: Otello

Otello

1979, regia di Carmelo Bene

Scheda: Nazione: Italia - Produzione: RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana) - Distribuzione: RAI Educational - Soggetto: dall'omonima tragedia di William Shakespeare - Montaggio: Giorgio Gianoglio - Architetto-scenografo: Carmelo Bene - Costumi: Carmelo Bene - Editorial director: Marilena Fogliatti - Capo progetto: Marco Dedola - Post-produzione e cura di: Laura Torre - Musiche: Luigi Zito - Collaborazione: Piergiorgio Giacché, CPTV Torino - Formato: Color - Durata: 77'. Edizione definitiva del film: 2001.

Cast: Carmelo Bene, Michela Martini, Cosimo Cinieri, Cesare Dell'Aguzzo, Beatrice Giorgi, Rossella Bolmida, Luca Bosisio, Jean-Paul Boucher.

Trama e commenti: forum.videohifi.com - cinemaerrante.it - educational.rai.it: «Nel 1979 la Rai registrò l'Otello di Shakespeare secondo Carmelo Bene, un'opera all'avanguardia per l'epoca, a metà strada tra cinema e televisione. Per problemi produttivi lo spettacolo non fu montato e non andò mai in onda. Finalmente, a distanza di 20 anni, Rai Educational ha recuperato il girato e le indicazioni di montaggio del Maestro; l'aiuto regista di allora, Marilena Foglietti, ha montato l'opera. Durante il montaggio Bene è più volte intervenuto ed oltre a cambiamenti drastici nel montaggio, ha richiesto anche un restauro dell'audio, del video ed interventi sul colore e sul contrasto delle riprese originali...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - seriesly.org - mubi.com: «Carmelo Bene recorded a special television adaptation of Othello at RAI Studios in Turin in 1979. This version was quite different from the stage play he put on the previous year and he employed a number of ground-breaking techniques that included filming with five cameras each of which was connected to a VCR. This enabled Bene to edit the play from recorded material instead of live, as was the custom then. Bene only began editing the footage in 1980 and finished the play in 2001 when he was already quite sick. He was eager to finish this project and asked Marilena Fogliatti to help him. Renato Parascandolo, the head of Rai Educationala said Bene wrote him a short letter on March,12 2002 saying that he had finished editing Otello. “The finale of Shakespeare’s Othello is the most lyrical of my theatrical achievements” declared Carmelo Bene. “This Otello is perfectly in tune with Bene’s other films and like them it is at once “cinema in the theater and theater in the cinema.” The camera doesn’t so much suggest a point of view as depict a frame; it doesn’t build a sequence but a series of appearances and disappearances in order to approach and precipitate the viewer’s gaze into the “body of the vision.” (Plato) Otello seems comic and melodramatic not only because Bene juxtaposes Shakespeare and Verdi, but also because it is played to the fullest by an actor who was one of the great Shakespearean actors. An actor who knew how to render the freedom of themes, dynamics and diversity of Shakespeare’s plays.” Piergiorgio Giacché. “Each of Carmelo Bene’s films works at constantly creating variations for all the aspects of the images, each in itself and in relationship to one another. An art of speed and intensity, the operation provokes each time a sight/sound continuum which builds a corresponding mechanism.” Gilles Deleuze, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs».

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