Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war
Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana
Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan
filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style
and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an
intricate path between the real and the fictive, the factual and
the imagined. His films show an extraordinarily consistent formal
balance while representing historical events as social emblems that
examine, shape, and reflect the national self. They rely on a
labyrinthine narrative structure, in which the sense of an enigma
replaces the unidirectional path leading ineluctably to a
designated end and solution. Rosi's logical investigations are
conducted by an omniscient eye and translated into a cinematic
approach that embraces the details of material reality with the
panoramic perspective of a dispassionate observer. This book offers
intertextual analyses within such fields as history, politics,
literature, and photography, along with production information
gleaned from Rosi's personal archives and interviews. It examines
Rosi's creative use of film as document, and as spectacle). It is
also a study of the specific cinematic techniques that characterize
Rosi's work and that visually, compositionally, express his vision
of history and the elusive "truth" of past and present social and
political realities.
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