Dopo i primi commenti della stampa in seguito all’anteprima mondiale al New York Film Festival, sull’attesissimo The Irishman, il nuovo film di Martin Scorsese che avrà come protagonisti Al Pacino, Robert De Niro e Joe Pesci, ha voluto dire la sua anche Guillermo del Toro. Il regista premio Oscar pe La Forma dell’Acqua – The Shape of Water, infatti, ha parlato del film in ben 13 tweet.
Di seguito un riassunto del suo pensiero sulla pellicola:
“È un film che parla di vite che vanno e che vengono… di tumulti, drammi, violenza, caos, perdita… e di come tutto finisca inevitabilmente per svanire, al pari di noi stessi. Il film è un mauselo di miti ed ha bisogno di tempo per essere assimilato, come un vero e proprio lutto. Il suo vero potere si manifesta col tempo, provocando una vera e propria illuminazione. È il corollario perfetto di Quei Bravi Ragazzi e Casinò. Guardatelo! Al cinema! Questo film ha dovuto aspettare davvero troppo ed averlo finalmente equivale ad un autentico miracolo. Sono le tre ore di cinema più veloci di sempre. Non dovete perderlo!”
Di seguito i tweet originali condivisi da Del Toro:
1/13: 13 Tweets about Scorsese’s The Irishman: First- the film connects with the epitaph-like nature of Barry Lyndon. It is about lives that came and went, with all their turmoil, all their drama and violence and noise and loss… and how they invariably fade, like we all do…
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
2/13 “It was in the reign of George III that the aforesaid personages lived and quarrelled; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now.” We will all be betrayed and revealed by time, humbled by our bodies, stripped off our pride.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
3/13 The film is a mausoleum of myths: a Funereal monument that stands to crush the bones beneath it. Granite is meant to last but we still turn to dust inside it.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
4/13 It’s the anti”My Way” (played in every gangster wedding in the world). Regrets they had more than few. The road cannot be undone and we all face the balance at the end. Even the voice over recourse has DeNiro trailing off into mumbled nonsense-
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
5/13 I remember, in a documentary about Rick Rubin- he explained how Johnny Cash singing “Hurt” (having lived and lost and gone to hell and back) gave it a dimension it could not have in the voice of a -then- young Trent Reznor (even if he composed it). This film is like that.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
6/13 Scorsese started hand-in-hand with Schrader, as young men, looking for Bresson. This movie transmogrified all the gangster myths into regret. You live this movie. It never goes for the sexy of violence. Never for the spectacle. And yet it is spectacularly cinematic.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
7/13 Film has the inexorabie feeling of a crucifixion- from the point of view of Judas. Every Station of the cross permeated by humor and a sense of banality- futility- characters are introduced with their pop-up epitaphs superimposed on screen: “This is how they die”
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
8/13 I never thought I would see a film in which I’d root hard for Jimmy Hoffa- but I did- perhaps because, in the end, he, much like the Kennedys, represented also the end of a majestic post-war stature in America.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
9/13 Pesci supremely minimalistic. Masterful. He is like a black hole- an attractor of planets- dark matter. DeNiro has always fascinated me when he plays characters that are punching above their true weight – or intelligence- That’s why I love him in so much Jackie Brown-
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
10/13 An interesting transfer between these characters: Pesci- who has played the Machiavellian monster, regains a senile innocence, a benign oblivion and De Niro’s character – who hass operated in a moral blank- gains enough awareness – to feel bitter loneliness.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
11/13 I believe that much is gained if we cross-reference our transgressions with how we will feel in the last three minutes of our life- when it all becomes clear: or betrayals, our saving graces and our ultimate insignificance. This film gave me that feeling.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
12/13 This film needs time- however- it has to be processed like a real mourning. It will come up in stages… I believe most of its power will sink in, in time, and provoke a true realization. A masterpiece. The perfect corollary Goodfellas and Casino.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
13/13 See it. In a theatre. This movie languished in development in studio vaults for so long… having it here, now, is a miracle. And, btw- fastest 3 hours in a cinema. Do not miss it.
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019
Guillermo del Toro elogia The Irishman di Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino e Joe Pesci sono i protagonisti di The Irishman di Martin Scorsese, un’epica saga sulla criminalità organizzata nell’America del dopoguerra, raccontata attraverso gli occhi del veterano della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Frank Sheeran – imbroglione e sicario – che ha lavorato al fianco di alcune delle figure più importanti del 20° secolo.
Il film racconta, nel corso dei decenni, uno dei più grandi misteri irrisolti della storia americana, la scomparsa del leggendario sindacalista Jimmy Hoffa, e ci accompagna in uno straordinario viaggio attraverso i segreti del crimine organizzato: i suoi meccanismi interni, le rivalità e le connessioni con la politica tradizionale.
The Irishman (qui il trailer ufficiale) uscirà in cinema selezionati e su Netflix dal prossimo 27 novembre. In Italia il film verrà presentato in anteprima il 21 ottobre alla 14esima edizione della Festa del Cinema di Roma, in programma dal 17 al 27 ottobre.
