The common good of and with Rocco Papaleo is a slow living comedy at jazz rhythm, invites to appreciate and live nature, to understand and accept the other, showing how we can all be like the loricated pine, the oldest tree in Europe that resists on the Pollino for more than a thousand years. In the most difficult places, something beautiful can always be born between a thousand difficulties.
While all around the world runs, Rocco Papaleo in this film invites us to rediscover nature, immerse ourselves in the world by detaching mobile phones, isolating us from all the external confusion to try to discover the world within us. The common good is an intellectual film, in the positive sense of the term. It leads to reason and enriches the experience of the viewer with dreamy, visionary, strange moments that approach the cinematic experience to the theatrical one. In a world of didactic simplifications, Papaleo chooses the most impervious way.
The actor and director brings in this film all his experience in the song theater. Music is a character in the story, not by chance Papaleo told about it even before the film. Also actresses Claudia Pandolfi, Teresa Saponangelo, Vanessa Scalera, Livia Ferri and Rosanna Sparapano remembered how during the shooting the music was always present on the set. The common good is a film to be seen to rediscover a vision of the world and the sense of community that seems lost among the egoisms that dominate contemporary life. If we all learn to love each other, to understand that we all live on the same land and that we work for a common good, maybe we would live better. But it is pure utopia from left radical chic intelighenzia, as someone would boil it to offend her.
Il bene comune, di cosa parla?
A tourist guide and an actress of “unsuccess” accompany four prisoners on the Pollino massif, in search of the secular Pino Loricato, a symbol of resilience. The journey soon becomes a journey of transformation, made of meetings and changes, marked by a music that takes shape step by step, until it becomes a collective voice able to hold together different bodies, emotions and stories.
In a harsh and beautiful nature, crossed by unexpected solidarity, fragments of complex lives emerge, wounds still open and the deep need to be seen and heard. Speaking, singing, giving a name to what has been lived becomes a way to dissolve tensions and find a sense of belonging, at least until a sudden event puts everything in question. Because, sometimes, telling is already a first step towards something bigger.
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