Paolo Sorrentino sounds alarm for cinema, says he has an obligation to make film for giant display – Marrakech – Deadline

After Netflix-backed function The Hand Of God, high-end drama The New Pope, and a latest TV adaptation of Italian play Sei Pezzi Facili for state Italian broadcaster Rai, Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino says he needs to reconnect with the cinema theatre.

“It’s a second of confusion for motion pictures. It’s not as straightforward to see good motion pictures because it was a number of years in the past. This can be a pure factor due to the difficulties dropped at us by the pandemic and it’ll take us a while to grasp this actuality,” mentioned the Italian director.

Sorrentino was speaking at a press convention on the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition on Saturday, which he’s attending because the president of a star-studded jury additionally that includes Diane Kruger, Nadine Labaki, Vanessa Kirby, Justin Kurzel, Tahar Rahim and Laïla Marrakchi.

“What’s great about our work, is that we are able to tackle new challenges. Now the problem for me is to do a film for the cinema, for the large room. Like years in the past, the problem for me was to do a TV collection. Now, that second is over for me,” he mentioned

“I’d like to do a film for the large room as a result of there’s a disaster of cinemas and I believe it’s our responsibility to do motion pictures for the cinemas, to attempt to save the cinemas, precisely at this level the place the platforms are having an enormous success,” he continued.

“The platforms don’t want us on this second. I had a beautiful expertise with Netflix. I’m not towards the platforms but it surely may very well be helpful if we attempt to do motion pictures for the cinemas after the pandemic and the disaster. In lots of nations, in Italy as effectively, we’re dropping quite a lot of cinemas.”

Sorrentino’s feedback in Marrakech echoed remarks he made in one of many debates on the way forward for cinema on the Cannes Movie Competition this 12 months, by which he mentioned wouldn’t make one other movie with Netflix.

Clarifying his feedback in Cannes, Sorrentino mentioned he had nothing towards the platforms, however moderately, he had been making an attempt to say that it was time for him as a director to get behind the big-screen theatrical expertise.

“I didn’t do a polemic towards the platforms. I can’t try this as a result of my final film was with a platform and it was a beautiful expertise,” he mentioned.

The Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition runs November 11-19.