With some 500 film soundtracks, Ennio Morricone undoubtedly sets a record. From his first film score (top secret missionLuciano Salce, 1961), to the last (The CorrispondenzaGiuseppe Tornatore, 2016), Ennio Morricone has built a work that also includes contemporary symphonic compositions, chamber music and song accompaniments.
Giuseppe Tornatore retraces in Ennio, in theaters Wednesday, July 6 – just two years after his death in 2020 – this unique journey. A wonderful documentary on an artist who has remained very discreet until now, whose words were expressed only through music.
Ennio is composed of several interviews filmed at Morricone, but also of filmmakers for whom he has worked: Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, the Taviani brothers, Clint Eastwood, Roland Joffé, Quentin Tarantino… Fed with period documents, film and musical excerpts, Ennio retraces the biography of the most popular soundtrack composer in cinema, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide.
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Of modest origin, it was his trumpeter father who demanded that he play his favorite instrument to support his future family, like him. An unusual injunction, parents rarely favoring artistic careers for their children, especially since the young boy has no particular taste for the trumpet.
He obtained several diplomas and signed his first classical composition in 1957, with a predilection for experimental music, which augured well for his future contributions to cinema. Passed by the Rai (Italian public television), it is his compositions for variety songs that make him notice filmmakers to compose the music of their films.
Sergio Leone noticed one of them and called on Ennio Morricone for the music for his second feature film, For a fistful of dollars (1964). This stylized film will codify the spaghetti western, whose success will last until the threshold of the 1970s. Morricone introduces what will make his mark, the use of unexpected sounds and instruments: whistle, whiplash, bell, acoustic guitar and electric, onomatopoeic choirs… Leone, disconcerted, hardly believes in it according to Morricone. But the overwhelming echo of his music with the public will convince him, and he will appeal to him until his last film. Once upon a time in America in 1984.
Signatory of Western music for Leone, Morricone is systematically solicited, but he wants to get out of this shackles. His wishes will soon be granted. He will compose for all genres of film: thriller, fantasy, romance, auteur films… from Italy to the United States, via France.
Giuseppe Tornatore, for whom Ennio Morricone composed his last soundtrack, is making a classic documentary about the musician, whose originality is enough in itself. Morricone confides as he lives his last years. The astonishment emanates from the precocity of the composer, from images of reports where he appears with a trumpet in his mouth at around ten years old, from learning that Leone and Morricone were in the same class at school without knowing it, and from testimonials from many filmmakers. Prolific as well as mysterious, the veil is lifted on Ennio Morricone.
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Gender : Documentary
Director : Giuseppe Tornatore
Actors : Ennio Morricone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Roland Joffé
Country : Italy
Duration : 2h36
Exit : July 6, 2022
Distributer : The pact
Synopsis : To At the age of 8, Ennio Morricone dreams of becoming a doctor. But his father decides that he will be a trumpeter, like him. From the music conservatory to the Oscar for best composer, the itinerary of one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.