Festa Roma, Giulio Base: “Next Minister for Culture restores importance to the figurative arts”

“I would ask the new Minister of Culture who is about to be appointed to give importance to the visual arts, cinema, theater, dance, ballet, music. Because they are the temperature of civilization and the ethics of a people. Italians this temperature has always been very high, not only in Italy but in the world “. Word of Giulio Base who, at Adnkronos, appeals to the future Minister of Culture of the government that is about to be born. The Roman director and actor is at the Rome Film Fest to present his new film, ‘Il Maledetto’, a reinterpretation of Macbeth in a gangster movie. “The idea of ​​staging Macbeth in a film was born to me many years ago, in 1993 – explains Base – when I read in a national newspaper the story of Luchino Visconti and Suso Cecchi D’Amico on modern Macbeth set in the world of finance. Combine the fact that one of my favorite genres in cinema is gangster movie. These things have come together over time: I thought that if you want to reread Macbeth noir, thriller is almost the perfect place for it. ‘is a general who wants to be king, in my film a small provincial’ picciotto ‘who wants to become godfather “. The director observes:” Studying and documenting myself, I then realized that almost everyone can be Macbeth, from’ Scarface ‘to’ Godfather ‘,’ Public Enemy ‘, the rise and fall of a tragic hero, often in spite of himself, who dreams of greater things than himself “. A style perhaps unprecedented for the director, with bloodshed and violence. “Perhaps for me it is unpublished – says Base – but the Shakespearean tragedy is the tragedy of blood, of death and darkness, of the night, of witches”. To enhance the atmosphere, the use of a dark, hypnotic sound is striking. “Certainly there was a particular use of sound to make this film one of a kind,” confirms the director. He comments: “I tried to mix all these elements in a contemporary world where crime is bloody, and I hope I managed to do what tragedy is said since the dawn of time, that is to communicate a catharsis”.