You can Avati, David di Donatello in his career: « I, awarded after 55 films »

Pupi Avati, 86 years old, wit, irony, the batting Salace, humanist culture. On May 7th he will receive the David di Donatello in his career.

«I think of a reflection that I have been doing for some time. There are two options to live things. The first happens to those colleagues who have an immediate recognition of their debut or almost, I think of Tornatore, Salvatores and now in Maura Delpero with Vermilionbut the Oscars are different from the David. Or to Orson Welles that after Fourth power Throughout his life he chased that first success without ever achieving it. I remember that I managed to go to the Venice Film Festival with School trip After trying like a barbarian for 15 years ».

THEIs her career David a late recognition?

«No, aware. They will have thought: we cannot fail to give it to him. It looks a little (in my little one) to the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is a breach that opens. I appreciate it more now, after 55 films. And I hope that other prizes will come. Ten years ago they would never have given me, for reasons of political belonging, or not belonging. I am a liberal but also a loose dog. There are colleagues who do not think like me (but on the cinema yes) who are sending me messages of rejoicing ».

Is cinema a fact of convention and friends?

«You should establish who are the good ones and the non -good ones. It is not enough to have an opinion to make a nice movie. If cinema is a hypocritical and conformist world where the same always work? It has been for years, the privileged, benefited from income positions, the Rome of the living rooms, as in literature ».

«Now each of us has its own difficult path and is a ordeal for everyone, because the competence of those who manage cinema is missing. I also think of the commissions of those who decide public funding, so Paola Cortellesi e Tastings of pennies were rejected. That’s why I discovered with the request of a Ministry of Cinema, and two Bipartisan bills are studying ».

Does the right have a rendering attitude with cinema, « red » territory?

«It is no longer so, political belonging no longer pays, in fact they reward me. I would say that common sense is back ».

She said she was a bankrupt for not having made the masterpiece, and that she made non -commercial films, some beautiful others less, but all with a thought behind.

«I hope I never make the masterpiece, the film in which you are totally satisfied, the summary of all life. It is like Dante in the last song of Paradise: after he gets to God, where do you go? I look for the sense of incomplete and non -compliance that elderly people have near their credits, not having met all the films and books or people you wanted. I would have liked to attend Claudio Magris much more, I try a great intellectual attraction for him. Life gives you the opportunity to do fantastic things, but only for a portion. And anyway I have never stopped ».

Cinema as an assembly line?

« Yes, creativity is a muscle that must be used to strengthen it. »

His films are above all with protagonists. Instead, you and the actresses?

«My female youth choices were dictated by aesthetic reasons, the unconfessable truth is that I tried to become seductive with cinema. In naive and provincial Italy in which I grew up, I suffered not to please. Then in my emotional story I discovered the great mystery of women, which goes beyond their appearance and is something impersoncrutable. In my last age, after 60 years, I reserved for my wife, of the fact that she gave me his life ».

With her, Sharon Stone made his Italian film.

«The script as a notary act lived, a comma could not be changed. But all American actors are rigid, they don’t imagine that you can suddenly have an idea, they look at you as if you were a madman. Fellini confided to me that he had suffered a lot with Donald Sutherland ».

Of his Jolly, Greggio, Cremonini, Ricciarelli, who loved the most?

«I will say Abatantuono, because in Christmas gift He had an anthropological transformation, total, became another, even in life. On my fixed actors I would say my beloved Carlo delle Piane, theoutsider that cinema used for its mask in a bieco way ».

Will the rooms still be there in a few years?

«They will be like when you listen to a quartet of classical music, the competent lovers will go there. The success of cinema will coincide with quality ».

Pupi, what did Romano become, after 55 years in the capital?

«Ah … in nothing. I keep seeing Rome from Bolognese, I look around with the gratitude of the tourist: but what luck I have to live here. Then it is a messed up city, but I got the welcome called indifference that is fundamental for those who make cinema. I am a specialist deleg fall, in Bologna there were those who toasted champagne to my youth failures, when I made the producers fail. The great gift of the Romans is that they care about you, they allow you to go to the carpet and get up ».

«I’m afraid for those who stay later. I still reproach my mother for leaving me. I imagine death as the scene of a film. Giro, I say stop, and leave me forever. The death on the field, like Molière at the theater, like Sinopoli on the podium ».