People of Rome
Gente di Roma
Italy
2003
100 Min
Color
Italian
Synopsis
Gente di Roma is a 2003 Italian mix of comedy and documentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini’s Roma.
The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, who Scola wanted to close the film, as a noble man, but he could not film him because he died.
Scola’s daughters helped to co-write the script. Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband’s lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus … a woman cleans the mayor’s office… A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration…… the owner of a bar is racist person… a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation… deportation that is filmed by a director… Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver…gay night life… sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together. —http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gente_di_Roma
Director
Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola (born 10 May 1931) is an Italian screenwriter and film director. Scola was born in Trevico, province of Avellino (Campania).
He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first movie, Let’s Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.
Since then Ettore Scola has made several successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa’s Journey (1990). Ettore Scola has directed close to 40 films in some 40 years, and he is still active.
His film Passione d’amore, adapted from a nineteenth-century novel… read more
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