The subject had good potential, Lucio Dalla was a talented singer and songwriter but this effort mostly misses the mark, with some emphasis on the so-dated 1970s political environment. The choice of featured songs is rather baffling, the filmmaker seeming to focus Dalla's duds, like a bizarre (and very long) song narrating a car race. His probably greatest hit, Caruso, was totally ignored. It is also surprising that nothing was said on the aspects of his personal life that became known after his death. Overall not very interesting, unfortunately.
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6.5Plot summary
This is a tribute to an artist whose songs told the story of Italy at a time of rapid social and cultural change. Thanks to the testimony of the singer's manager and friend Tobia Righi, and an effective and original use of archive material, Pietro Marcello retraces the life of Lucio Dalla, making him a spotlight through which Marcello sheds light on a country that rose from the ruins of the Second World War to sever its roots with peasant culture and move towards a future of factories, consumerism and mass car production. Not handsome or dashing like the other singers of his generation, Lucio Dalla embodied a different role model that was closer to ordinary people. For here was an artist capable of transposing the poetry of Roversi, who provided the lyrics for some of Dalla's most beautiful songs, into a musical arrangement that spoke to everyone. The director of Martin Eden returns to the documentary form with a film that pays tribute not only to a great singer but also to a notion of a people that has vanished with him.
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