When he came out in theaters in 1976, the film Lugi Faccini " Red Carnation," based on the novel by Elio Vittorini , attracted the attention of much criticism than those of the public. remained in first run just under a week and enjoy some more appreciation, had to emigrate abroad, and particularly in Italian Film Festival of San Sebastian , where his young star Miguel Bose (then twenty years old and already in its fifth role as an actor!) was awarded a special award.
The plot takes place in Sicily in 1924 and narrates the journey from adolescence to puberty the young Alessio Mainardi through the various experiences he has faced: the approach to the city to attend high school, interest in fascism by his inculcatogli Tarquinio and love for his school friend Joan who gave him a red carnation a sign of eternal fidelity.
Giovanna but disappears into thin air and Alessio takes refuge in the countryside to lick their wounds.
In parents 'house, all anti-fascists, Alessio will meet with the values \u200b\u200bof the rural world and definitely will be converted to' socialist ideology to the point that he returned to Syracuse, became interested in the work of a cell Communist underground.
In the end, after his sexual initiation with a prostitute Zobeida , reunited with Tarquinio (since he started with Joan ) which urges him again join the fascists giving him a gun, but Alex refuses. The weapon will end up in the hands of the communist youth that if the Sparta in turn as a pledge and promise of future anti-fascist resistance.
a capstone to a performance so articulated, mixed and full of different environments , director Faccini decided to entrust the soundtrack to one of the most versatile groups until then in circulation: The Banco del Mutuo Soccorso .
However, contrary to what happened with Deep Red whose success and launched the ennobled Working Goblin, half the flop of "Red Carnation " dragged into oblivion even if all the music of Banco .
In fact, this attitude corresponded to trivialization of a work that is true that it was comprimaria images, but even the intellectual entire film a startling sign of modernity and awareness .
And 'one of the last signs of Tour " movementists " which espoused the cause of the anti-fascist story Vittorini and painted with Figurative extraordinary elegance the essence of the film, " its discretion, the intensity in the hatch of the characters and the taste of memory " (see Luigi Bini in "Readings") .
The usual group of modernity, here sublimated by more ingenious inventions of timbre Nocenzi , seems to evoke the timeliness and persistence of those libertarian values \u200b\u200bexpressed in 1942. Musically it is the unmistakable hand of the band in the prog-jazz digressions of title track, her fairy-tale aulicità in “ Quasi saltarello ”, le meraviglie tra il classico e il pop di “ Tema di Giovanna ” e il maestoso prog sinfonico di “ Funerale ”.
A chi volesse relegare “ Garofano Rosso ” a lavoro di serie B per la mancanza del cantato, ricordiamo non soltanto che in una soundtrack l’assenza della voce è più che accettabile ma che - se proprio vogliamo essere onesti sino in fondo -, Faccini non avrebbe potuto compiere una scelta migliore.
Dato il modesto impatto del film, dicevamo, this excellent symbiosis between music and images was never considered a duty, but as often happens in these cases (remember "God is dead " Nomads of , but censored by the RAI broadcast by Vatican Radio) to notice of his two-way was just a journalist is completely alien to prog that the movement : Virgilio Fantuzzi of Civilization Catholic who said:
" We can identify a trend in film music, chanted in three movements, as in a classical concert ... "
And that" classical concert "was really the work of Tour.
DELMUTUO BANK RESCUE - Discography 1972 - 1978:
1972: BANK RESCUE DELMUTUO
1972: DARWIN
1973: I was born FREE
1975: BANK (Inglese)
1976: RED CARNATION
1976 AS IN LAST SUPPER
1978: EARTH
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