Leonora addio

The film tells the adventurous travels of Pirandello’s ashes from Rome to Agrigento, surviving accidents, encounters and visions. An aircraft remained on the ground because of superstition; a train travelled slowly south. Finally, Pirandello’s ashes were strewn from a rock overlooking the Sicilian sea, in the shape of a nail. The Nail was in fact Pirandello’s last work, inspired by a murder in Brooklyn and the character of Bastianeddu, who first appeared in Kaos. 

Among the greatest Italian filmmakers, brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have directed 20 films since the early 1960s, including Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969), Allonsanfàn (1974), Padre Padrone (Palme d’or in Cannes, 1977) and Good Morning, Babylon (1987). Vittorio Taviani died in 2018. 
 
“From the goodbye in the title to a look back at the writer’s last words, you can’t help but see this work so free yet so rooted in the world of Taviani, as a moving adieu to his brother who, as in Caesar Must Die, Golden Bear in 2012, used film yet again to give a voice to literature and history.” Carlo Chatrian