A prime time signed by Rai Documentari, that of Friday 26 August at 21.25 on Rai 2, with “Dreams of the fantastic north”. Directed by Dario Acocella, also creator jointly with Paolo Cognetti and Francesco Favale, the documentary tells the literary and fascinating journey of Paolo Cognetti, winner of the 2017 Strega Prize with “The Eight Mountains”, in lookup of a new existential frontier for male and for its coexistence with the setting, in the footsteps of some of the good masters of American literature.
Created by Samarcanda Movie with Feltrinelli True Cinema and Rai Cinema, with the assistance of the Valle d’Aosta Location and MIBACT and distributed by Nexi Distribution, the docu-movie retraces a travel knowledge that encompasses numerous other journeys and as numerous significant kinds meanings, symbolizing at the identical time a distinctive immersion in the nature and soul of the writer.
The to start with, the just one that Paolo undertakes with each other with his good friend Nicola Magrin – traveler and illustrator – who will lead them to uncover the Fantastic North, from Milan to Vancouver to Alaska, aboard a camper. The 2nd is what Paolo does backwards to find his roots as a writer and as a male, retracing the legendary sites of his terrific masters who, in his life, have played a significantly broader purpose than the basically literary one particular: from Port Angeles the place Raymond Carver is buried at Jack London’s Klondike, from Ernest Hemingway’s trout lakes to the wilderness of Thoreau up to Denali Nationwide Park in which the Magic Bus of Into The Wild is situated, which served as home to Christopher McCandless. All authors who have created travel a authentic artwork. The third journey, on the other hand, is the most introspective a person due to the fact his is a restless soul, in which moments of contagious enthusiasm alternate with darkish moments, dictated by the uncertainty of a choice and the emptiness of the earth all over him.
Paolo Cognetti’s narrative voice qualified prospects viewers on this route of self-research, by way of the visuals shot throughout the journey, the fragments of dialogue among the two friends and the voice-more than looking through of the quotations by Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Hd Thoreau , Jack London and Chris McCandless.
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