Naples-New York, movie: where to watch it on TV and streaming

Naples-New York: the double true story of Gabriele Salvatores’ film. What Fellini has to do

First time that the Oscar -winning director for Mediterranean He directs Pierfrancesco Favino, the film has a beautiful story in history. If the Screenplay is in fact by Salvatores, the subject is signed Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli. The two, who together signed masterpieces like The calves, the road and 81/2they wrote this story, then abandoned and found by Pinelli in a trunk. Salvatores said: « Already the fact of having come into possession of a story written by Federico Fellini and Tullio Pinelli, whose little or nothing was known, seemed wonderful to me. How can you not get involved? A story that dates back to the late 1940s, inspired by a true story, told as a fairy tale. And written in a moment of passage for our cinema: Among neorealism, the Italian comedy and the first attempts of a more fantastic cinema».

Naples-New York: where to see it today on April 28 on TV and streaming, how long it lasts and the book

Naples-New York, 126 minutes long, it airs Today Monday 28 April at 9.15 pm on Sky Cinema Uno, in streaming on Now and available on demand. On Sky the film will also be available on demand in 4K. Our advice is to combine the vision of the film to book of the same name published by Marsilio. Curated by Augusto Sainati, he tells the Genesis.

The film is nominated a 4 David di Donatellowhich will be assigned on May 7 live on Rai 1 in the early evening. Applications are: Best adaptation, best supporting actor (Favino), better special effects and David Giovani Prize. Also, the film has 3 Golden Ciak candidates. In the ranking of Italian films that collected most in 2024 it is eighth.

What story does Naples-New York tell: the plot of the film with Pierfrancesco Favino

Naples, 1949. Four years after the end of the Second World War, the city is still bent by misery. An anti -human formication that live in the ruins and debate in an attempt to survive. Among these, The little Carmine and Celestina (Antonio Guerra and Dea Lanzoro). You have also lost the last relative, in the collapse of the dangerous (and unusable) building. He is constantly looking for an American to be picked up a dollar. When he is hired by the black cook of a ship anchored off the coast that does not pay him the necessary, The two hide on board. Celestina wants to reach her sister Agnese (Anna Lucia Pierro) emigrated for some time, he claims her money. Illegal immigrants among the many Italians looking for luck in New York. They are discovered by Italian captain of the ship (Pierfrancesco Favino). They will arrive in New York and it will be alone the beginning of a new great adventure. Even a new life? More beautiful?

The cast of Naples-New York

Pierfrancesco Favino, co-protagonist, leaves the scene to two very young: Dea Lanzoro and Antonio Guerra. They are the heroes of the adventure that the director tells with tones of the fairy tale and many reflections of our contemporaneity. Favino is the Italian captain of the Naples-New York shipon which two kids embark as illegal immigrants. With them, Omar Benson Miller (is the black cook of the ship), Anna Admirati (the captain’s wife), Anna Lucia Pierro (the protagonist’s sister). Guest star: Tomas Arana and a wonderfully fulminant Antonio Catania (the director of the Little Italy newspaper).

The Naples-New York review: a real fairy tale yesterday immersed in today

The art of getting by and the myth of « America » They are those of the past, those that Fellini and Pinelli admitted to know only partially when they wrote the story of this film. Salvatores respects their script only in the first part, immersing ourselves completely in that distant imagination. The whole part set in the new world is his. There is no longer the magic of his Naples (Salvatores’ hometown), but the romantic representation of the context in which the fairy tale of the two kids develops remains. That the director leaves protagonists until the end, succeeding better than other times. Perhaps because the follows the their naturalness and leaves them « free »unlike the previous « invisible boys ». Between cardboard suitcases and American dream, Sciuscià (which we see at the cinema, when it came out), Little Italy e glimpses from Once upon a time in America, The film consciously moves between Stereotypes, artifices and digital reconstructions. But where they are always the faces and human bodies to take over. Them with their emotions, torments and dreams …