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con John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Robert Random, Susan Strasberg
Stati Uniti, 2h03, v.o. inglese sott. italiano
Nel 1970 il leggendario regista Orson Welles cominciò a girare quella che sarebbe stata la sua ultima opera cinematografica. Ostacolata da problemi finanziari, la produzione continuò a fatica fino al 1976, senza comunque essere terminata né distribuita. Più di mille rulli restarono abbandonati in un deposito di Parigi fino al marzo del 2017, quando il progetto venne completato a più di trent’anni dalla morte di Welles. The Other Side of the Wind racconta del famoso cineasta J.J. “Jake” Hannaford che ritorna a Hollywood dopo anni di esilio volontario in Europa. L’ultimo, immenso film di uno dei più grandi autori della storia del cinema.
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In 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of luminaries that included John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched to 1976 and soon gained industry-wide notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as a production manager on Wind during in its initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have Welles’s vision completed more than 30 years after his death. Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand and assembled by a technical team including Oscar- winning editor Bob Murawski, The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. A satire of the classic studio system as well as the new establishment who were shaking things up at the time, Welles’s final film is both a fascinating time capsule of a now-distant era in moviemaking as well as the long-awaited “new” work from an indisputable master of his craft.
(fonte: labiennale.org)
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