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Ennio: The Maestrodocumentary

Ennio: The Maestro

2021

Giuseppe Tornatore

Documentary, Self: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood ...

8.0

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Documentary Ennio is a well-rounded portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores. The documentary presents the Maestro through a long interview conducted by Tornatore, testimonies from artists and directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Marco ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Ennio Morricone gets the entrancing documentary he deserves (...) The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music (...) But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality"
		Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald	"The film does take you deep into the mind and imagination of an astonishingly audacious music-maker (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tara Brady Irish Times	"Tributes become repetitive but there's much to enjoy in this documentary about Ennio Morricone (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Stephanie Bunbury Deadline	"It hits a single, unvarying note of unalloyed, enthusiastic reverence. Even so its fascination never flags."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Happily, the film is more than a greatest-hits rundown (and at nearly three hours, it had better be): In addition to nuts-and-bolts musicology, it offers real engagement with a complicated character"
		Matt Cipolla The Film Stage	"Tornatore's approach is too simplistic to make much impression"
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"A painstakingly detailed, fantastically entertaining, and profoundly exhausting deep dive into the career of the hyper-prolific Italian composer Ennio Morricone (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Giuseppe Tornatore pays tribute to his friend and collaborator with a star-studded and compelling look at his musical genius"
		Sophie Monks Kaufman The Playlist	"'Ennio' is compelling when the man himself is speaking, in person and through his music, and a tedious slog when it becomes a carousel of talking heads all proclaiming his genius in hyperbolic terms."
		Edward Porter The Sunday Times	"By the standards of arts documentaries, this one does a proper job of explaining why its subject is revered (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"The music that adds so much to the images and characters on screen is just as meaningful on its own (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Craig Mathieson The Age	"Filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore's homage to his late collaborator is detailed to the point of exhaustive, but the access is priceless"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"'Ennio' turns out to be overlong, overblown, and larded with such praises that Morricone, a modest if determined soul, would blush to hear them"
		Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader	"Diving into the history of these scores touches the heart of anyone who has been moved by his songs"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"One of the movie's nice surprises is that Morricone turns out to be a total charmer, a low-key showman with a demure gaze that he works like a vamp and an impish smile that routinely punctuates one of his anecdotes"
		Mark Beaumont NME	"Over 150 minutes, as the subtleties of score after score are dissected, it becomes a film more of interest to students of classical composition than fans of the great man himself (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's not a short film, at roughly two and a half hours. It's also so rich in its detail, and sheer musical variety, you're grateful for the excess (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Morricone's presence in the documentary is the key element, because by watching him, we understand the sensitive qualities that made him so good at interpreting and augmenting the work of others (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kyle Smith The Wall Street Journal	"The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary is its length: 2 ½ hours. Far too short!"

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