His last film, Wim Wenders decided to go and turn in Palermo, recalling with great style corners, markets, courtyards, bustling squares, the cries of the people. "Palermo Shooting" is a very strange and evocative, full of literary and philosophical ideas, whose mystery he can not escape those who know this director. It 's the story of a German artist, master of design, which enjoys great success at home (among other things is the official photographer of Milla Jovovich, who appears in the role in the film itself), but they feel empty inside himself. The World frivolous for the jet set, the inconsistency of his adventures of Don Juan, a tendency to melancholy and loneliness led him to embark on an experience, initially working in Palermo. But beyond the allure of the Sicilian city would keep him here is a chain of mysterious encounters with a man hooded and dressed all in white, who surprises him with darts at the end of which only understand the meaning: "death is an arrow from future, "it says this ghost-faced Dennis Hopper, when she meets the hero in an old library similar to the prisons of Piranesi. In fact, the designer and photographer, among the crowded streets of Palermo, had surprised the death once with the camera, then with the dodged a camera after his arrow. Flavia, played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno a restorer who is working for two years just to an ancient fresco representing the death, and the only one to believe his ravings, the photographer accompanying hooded man on the street. The final dialogue with Death, who turns out later to be more valuable than you think, takes a modern twist, "The Seventh Seal Bergman, while the figure of the traveler in search of sensations recalls John Malcovic in Portofino in an episode of that small masterpiece "Par delà des nuages" by Antonioni. A dedication to these important two great masters, who died the same day during the making of the film, puts them in the report. Very personal, however, is that Wenders is the reworking of the theme of the picture. In philosophy, in fact, the image is always linked to death, because it is a representation that is released by the passage of time has no beginning or end, has no life, remember the last story, but also the beauty of the disaster, is self- . The picture today is the image par excellence, says the white spirit Dennis Hopper, but most of all this art has ruined the appearance of digital, which takes away the negative, the concentration of the artist, the fascination of the unseen, the expression of the shadows, but also the mystery of the double: we lose consciousness with digital instant on the brink of two realities, including opposing forces mirror and inverse forms. Now the man sleeping on giant beds, now squats on tiny couches, shape and mind do not match. Just brush with death, or refusing to enjoy life (the protagonist is both experiences), it can be nell'aldiquà and hereafter. Except to know and then return to the world. How not to get captured by these images and reflections on the threshold of Wenders?
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