Film Snail

8.4

Ennio

NR·2022·156m

Documentary

Music

History

Documentary

Music

History

Summary

A 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.

Cast

Ennio Morricone

Self

Silvano Agosti

Self

Alessandro Alessandroni

Self

Fausto Ancillai

Self

Dario Argento

Self

Joan Baez

Self

Sergio Bassetti

Self

Bruno Battisti D'Amario

Self

Marco Bellocchio

Self

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self

Marco Biscarini

Self

Walter Branchi

Self

Gilda Buttà

Self

Caterina Caselli

Self

Enzo G. Castellari

Self

Liliana Cavani

Self

Marina Cicogna

Self

Furio Colombo

Self

Mychael Danna

Self

Brian De Palma

Self

Alessandro De Rosa

Self

Edda Dell'Orso

Self

Sergio Donati

Self

Clint Eastwood

Self

Roberto Faenza

Self

Eva Fischer

Self

Daniele Furlati

Self

Marco Tullio Giordana

Self

James Hetfield

Self

Phil Joanou

Self

Roland Joffé

Self

Quincy Jones

Self

Wong Kar-Wai

Self

Barry Levinson

Self

Andrea Leone

Self

Raffaella Leone

Self

Claudio Mancini

Self

Miranda Martino

Self

Franco Migliacci

Self

Terrence Malick

Self (voice)

Pat Metheny

Self

Giuliano Montaldo

Self

Gianni Morandi

Self

Antonello Neri

Self

Enzo Ocone

Self

Gino Paoli

Self

Antonio Pappano

Self

Mike Patton

Self

Goffredo Petrassi

Self

Enrico Pieranunzi

Self

Franco Piersanti

Self

Nicola Piovani

Self

Tonino Poce

Self

Boris Porena

Self

David Puttnam

Self

Dulce Pontes

Self

Paul Simonon

Self

Sergio Sollima

Self

Bruce Springsteen

Self

Oliver Stone

Self

Quentin Tarantino

Self

Paolo Taviani

Self

Vittorio Taviani

Self

Giuseppe Tornatore

Self

Fabio Venturi

Self

Carlo Verdone

Self

Edoardo Vianello

Self

Lina Wertmüller

Self

John Williams

Self

Bruno Zambrini

Self

Ettore Zeppegno

Self

Hans Zimmer

Self

Zucchero

Self

Crew

Director, Screenplay, Story

Giuseppe Tornatore

Reviews

Geronimo1967

May 2, 2022

This is a must see for fans of great cinema music. Perhaps alongside John Williams and John Barry, the eponymous maestro has scored in an unique and innovative way, a great many films since the 1960s and this film tracks how he rose from a classical music training to an (eventual) Oscar winner. It does suffer from the perennial problem of films like this, we see (and hear) too little of his marvellous works - especially my own favourite "Ecstasy of Gold" - but the narrative offers a quickly paced series of contributions from those well known, and those less so. It is astonishing just how many films he did provide the music for, some of it truly memorable and some of it truly dreadful - but here we see a man who never shied away from pushing the boundaries. His creative use of vocals, even of a typewriter to create his sounds demonstrates well his almost boundless imagination. Though at times a little dry, this documentary lays that skill and passion engagingly before us. Bertolucci, Eastwood and Joffé all contribute in a fashion that avoids the adulatory, and makes this an enjoyable chronology not just of Morricone himself, but of world cinema too.