{"id":1152,"date":"2009-04-17T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T09:39:13","slug":"pupi-avatis-gli-amici-del-bar-margherita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/pupi-avatis-gli-amici-del-bar-margherita\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupi Avati&#8217;s Gli Amici del Bar Margherita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Pupi Avati film, <strong>Gli Amici del Bar Margherita<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0 Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/cineuropa.org\/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&amp;documentID=94092\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/cineuropa.org']);\" target=\"_blank\">CinEuropa comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>After the dramatic <strong>Giovanna&#8217;s Father<\/strong> (which won Alba Rohrwacher the Coppa Volpi at the latest Venive fest for Best Performance), Pupi Avati is back in cinemas with <strong>Gli Amici del Bar Margherita<\/strong> (&#8220;The Friends of Margherita Bar&#8221;), which springs forth from the joyous memories of his native Bologna of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Taddeo, played by newcomer Pierpaolo Zizzi, is the alter ego of the director&#8217;s 18-year-old self, whom everyone calls Coso (&#8220;Thing&#8221;). &#8220;The nickname came from my trouble expressing myself at the time,&#8221; admits Avati.Through Coso&#8217;s eyes, we discover the characters that pass through the bar: Diego Abatantuono, Gianni Cavina, Neri Marcor\u00e8, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabio De Luigi, Alfiero Toppetti and Claudio Botosso give life to a universe of men that is both cynical and ruthless but with a tremendous desire for gaiety in a post-war period that was going through the first illusory effects of the economic boom.<\/p>\n<p>The women are depicted with a mix of attraction and misogyny &#8211; they are mothers (Katia Ricciarelli), kept women (Laura Chiatti) and easy piano teachers (Luisa Ranieri). But the number one rule at the Margherita is no women are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a male chauvinist society&#8221;, said Avati. &#8220;But my Margherita Bar was a kind of Pantheon of samples of innocence,&#8221; who lives in a web of dreams, adventures and ferocious laughter.<\/p>\n<p>In a cinematic landscape that seems to describe today&#8217;s world, <strong>Gli Amici del Bar Margherita<\/strong> depicts the past with humour and a light touch (the clubs and repression of strikers by Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba of 1954 are very distant) because, according to the director, &#8220;someone must confront the past from the perspective of the present&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by the director&#8217;s brother Antonio Avati for DueA Film, in collaboration with RAI Cinema, the film is being released April 3 on 250-300 screens by 01 Distribution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1153\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1153\" title=\"gliamicidelbar_3th\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/mimbo2.2\/images\/gliamicidelbar_3th.jpg\" alt=\"gliamicidelbar_3th\" width=\"200\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gliamicidelbar_3th.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gliamicidelbar_3th-61x88.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gli Amici del Bar Margherita <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new Pupi Avati film, Gli Amici del Bar Margherita&#8230;\u00a0 Here are the CinEuropa comments: After the dramatic Giovanna&#8217;s Father (which won Alba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}