马西莫·波波利

Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, which the pair adapted in 1984 (Chaos) and 1998 (You Laugh). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright’s vision, the film is not at all what it appears to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of that book’s jealousy-riddled plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather, his ashes, which are transported from a hasty burial site in fascist Rome to a permanent resting place in Sicily, on a trek that takes us through post-war Italy and its filmed memories, as seen in newsreels, amateur films and fragments of Neorealism. Having buried the master, Leonora addio then shifts gear from road movie to film adaptation, but here it picks a different Pirandello story, namely the last one, written shortly before his death in 1936. From the farewell of the title to its return to the writer’s last words, it is hard not to read this work, so free and yet so much a part of the Taviani world, as a moving brotherly farewell which, just as in 2012’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to give voice to literature and history.

极具天赋、年轻气盛、自由散漫却依旧备受宠爱的克里斯蒂安是个名副其实的“冠军”，这位摇滚巨星般闪耀的天才球员吸引着全世界无数球迷的目光。相比之下，瓦莱里奥是一位孤独而羞涩的文哲教授，饱受经济问题和过往阴影的困扰。在克里斯蒂安又一次“搞砸”自己的生活后，俱乐部经理决定给他请一位私人导师，帮助他管理那火爆的脾气，并要求他通过一个同龄男性应遵循的基本前提——成熟度测试。对这截然不同的两人而言，起初总免不了有一些摩擦。然而，他们之间很快就建立了一种促进彼此成长和改变的纽带。

A father, just out of rison, wants to send some time with his eleven-year-old son.