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Il Postino
Postino: The Postman (Italian: Il postino, lit. ”The Postman”; the title used for the original US release) is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford. Based on the 1985 novel Ardiente paciencia (English translation: “Burning Patience”) by Antonio Skármeta, itself adapted from a 1983 film written and directed by Skármeta, the film tells a fictional story in which the real life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda forms a friendship with a simple Procida postman (Troisi) who learns to love poetry. The cast includes Troisi, Philippe Noiret, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. The screenplay was adapted by Radford, Troisi, Anna Pavignano, Furio Scarpelli, and Giacomo Scarpelli.
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Writer/star Troisi was severely ill during filming, postponing heart surgery so it could be completed. The day after principal photography ended, he suffered a fatal heart attack, and the film was completed and released posthumously.
The film was critically acclaimed, earning numerous accolades including BAFTA Awards for Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Direction, and Best Film Music.
Composer Luis Bacalov won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.
The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.
Luis Enríquez Bacalov
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Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine (naturalized Italian) film composer and musical director. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim – conductor of the Berlin and Chicago orchestras, and from Berta Sujovolsky.
He ventured into music for the cinema, and composed now-classic scores for many Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s he also collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, winning it in 1996 for Il Postino.
Bacalov also composed significant works for chorus and orchestra. Before his death, he was the artistic director of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Italy.
Bacalov Discography
Studio albums
1968 We Still Kill the Old Way (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (LP; United Artists)
1971 Pitturamusica (LP; Generalmusic)
1972 Paesaggi (LP; Generalmusic)
1973 La Seduzione (LP; Cetra)
1975 Desbandes by Gato Barbieri and Luis Bacalov (LP; Vista)
1979 Sincretic 1 by Luis Bacalov and Giovanni Tommaso
1980 La cité des femmes (LP; Général Music France)
1984 Le Juge (CD; Ltd; Music Box Records)
1985 Le Transfuge (CD; Ltd; Music Box Records)
1985 Django (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intermezzo, Generalmusic)
1986 Quién Sabe? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intermezzo, Generalmusic)
1992 Il Prezzo del potere (Original Soundtrack) (CD; CAM)
1993 Luis Bacalov Plays Nino Rota (CD; CAM)
1994 The Postman (Il Postino) (CD; Miramax Records)
1994 Anni Ribelli (Original Soundtrack) (CD; CAM)
1995 A ciascuno il suo / Una questione d'onore (Original Soundtracks) (CD, RE; Point Records
1995 La più grande rapina del west / L'oro dei bravados (Original Soundtracks) (CD, RE, Ltd.; GDM Music)
1995 Il grande duello / Si può fare... amigo (Original Soundtracks) (CD; Point Records)
1995 Ricatto alla Mala / La polizia è al servizio del cittadino? (Original Soundtracks) (CD; Point Records)
1996 Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (Original Soundtrack) (CD, RE, RCA)
1997 Concerto Premio Rota 1996' (CD, RM; CAM)
1997 La tregua ("The Truce") (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD; CAM)
1999 Milonga (Original Soundtrack) (CD; RCA)
2000 Lo chiamavano King... / Monta in sella!! Figlio di... / Partirono preti, tornarono... curati (Original Soundtracks) (CD, RM, Ltd.; Screen Trax)
2003 Sugar Colt (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD; GDM Music)
2007 Per amore by Ennio Morricone and Luis Bacalov (Colonna Sonora Originale) (CD, RE, RM; GDM Music)
2007 I quattro del pater noster (Original Soundtrack) (CD, R; Verita Note
2008 A qualsiasi prezzo (CD; Verita Note)
2010 Coup de foudre (CD, Ltd.; Quartet Records)
2010 Lo Scatenato / La Pecora / Nera (CD; Verita Note)
2010 Summertime Killer (The Complete Original Soundtrack in Full Stereo) (CD, RE, RM, Ltd.; Quartet)Some facts about il film “Il Postino”
Il postino, which is its original title, premiered in Italy at the Venice Festival on September 1, 1994 and was distributed in the Italian Salas on the 22nd of that same month. A movie, until that moment not well known, English director Michael Radford and Massimo Troisi. Because, even if he was never accredited, the Italian actor who jumped to fame for this role was the co-director of the film and also involved himself in the writing of the script.
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The film is based on the novel entitled ‘Burning patience’ (1986) by the Chilean writer, Antonio Skármeta. Which, when he was read for Massimo Troisi, caused a great emotional impact and did not stop until he could buy the rights to take it to the big screen.
Although in the book the story is set in a small fishing village of the Black Island, near the Chilean coasts, in June 1969; For the film it was decided to do so in 1952, a period in which Pablo Neruda really was exiled in Italy. After trying to shoot the film on the island of Panthelería (Sicily), it was chosen to do it in Procida and Salinas, in the vicinity of Naples. In this place Massimo Troisi was born and that is when we verified the maximum implication of the actor in the project that would change his life. The cinema, once again, is the reflection of the emotions of its creators.
The geographical and sentimental map of IL postino always takes place in parallel in the beautiful filming. Panthelería is where the poet Pablo Neruda arrives asking for political asylum. This is where friendship with Mario (Massimo Troisi) who is hired as a porter to send the correspondence to the famous poet. Pablo Neruda is played by the famous French actor Philippe Noiret, with until that moment a long list of international successes (who could forget his character from Alfredo in Cinema Paradiso de Tornatore?). And that mailman, a poor and simple man, son of an illiterate fisherman (like almost all the inhabitants of the island), is the already named Massimo Troisi, known in Italy as ‘the comedian of feelings.’
The Italian film revolves around the master/disciple relationship that somehow was already appreciated in the aforementioned Cinema Paradiso. In that mythical tape it was the film room that served as a cultural, social and informative reference of a small Italian town. This municipality opened its eyes to the world through cinematography. However, in Il postino the engine that moves the characters represented is poetry. The film is also an interesting metaphor that perfectly reflects the social reality of the Italian population of the time. A society punished by postwar and disconnected in a certain way from the cultural life of the big cities.
But love does not understand social or cultural borders. Nor does sexual desire. And that’s when Beatricce enters. This is interpreted by a beautiful Maria Grazia Cucinotta that represents the power of Italian women. In this part of the production, narrated in the form of a rural costumbrista story, it is when a social triangle between Neruda, the mailman and the young Breatricce is established. Mario, who is a shy man, finds courage and also the means to try to conquer the woman who loves through the verses of his friend the poet.
The scenery of the tape is evocative. Mediterranean purity is always present in the background when not in first. In the final part, the precious color is alternated with some black and white images. With this, the filmmaker is committed to the melodrama with which he finds an emotional counterpoint to the sweetness expressed in the first part of the story. We also appreciate a very special music composed of the famous Argentine pianist and composer Luis Bacalov who took the Oscar to the best original soundtrack.
Il postino is a beautiful, subtle and cadencious tape. It seems to us that it is much more than a movie. It is a hymn to poetry and the power of the word. These are able to raise the soul of any human being. Mario Ruoppolo, the mailman, feeds on the learning of the teacher and poet next to him. We speak, therefore, of the history of a friendship that is born of a deep admiration and that at the end of the film is reciprocal. With this, humility is valued as the main moral vector of the sweet proposal presented.
