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“Inside me there is a child, there will always be a child, in Rome on the occasion of a double anniversary: 90
until my death, and I am happy with it. If you have this years from birth and 30 from the death of the one who
impression I am happy, because it is, how to say, an has merit of having taught Italian cinema to rewrite the
extra impression”. Sergio Leone, sly but always very at- western genre without fear of comparison with America.
tentive, to the curiosities of the French press that had Clips of f lms, drawings and sketches, posters, clothes
him welcomed with surprising enthusiasm for the city and stage secrets, (stop in front of the movie about the
on the occasion of the exhibition set up at the Cinémat- making of noises and you won’t regret it, 5 happy mi-
hèque francaise, in Paris in October 2018. Over 60 thou- nutes of surprising and lucid madness-mastery, editor’s
sand visitors in three months and sold out tickets had note), family photographs and memories, interviews with
highlighted the desire to discover closely the secrets of the actors who grew up together with him, like Clint Ea-
one of the most brilliant protagonists of the cinemato- stwood, Lee van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, they tell the
graphic world, irregular and revolutionary artist always extraordinary human and professional story of the direc-
capable of surprise, experiment and rework childhood tor who signed f lms that went down in history, mythical
myths and dreams using the memory of cinema and the f lms like C’era una volta il West, Giù la testa, il Buono
freedom of fairy tale. Today that exhibition, thanks to the il Brutto il Cattivo, C’era una volta in America. . “Daddy
long wave of a dizzying success, arrives in Rome, in the was a innovator and makes us happy to note that he still
Ara Pacis space, open until May 3rd in “Once upon a continues to be mentioned and celebrated all over the
time there was Sergio Leone”, 1000 square meters of world ”, says Raffaella Leone, together with her brother
an unmissable and always surprising journey through hi- Andrea at the helm of the Leone Film Group. And the
story, secrets and life of the Roman director. Curated by strong impact of the Italian director on world cinema
Gianluca Farinelli, director of the Cineteca di Bologna, in culture has also been demonstrated by the section de-
collaboration with Rosaria Gioia and Antonio Bigini, con- dicated to the authors who pay homage to him today,
ceived and strongly desired by Camilla Morabito with starting with Quentin Tarantino, in race with 10 statuet-
her communication agency Equa and by her children, tes for the Oscar 2020 with his “Once Upon a Time in
Raffaella, Francesca and Andrea, the exhibition arrives Hollywood”, freely inspired by Sergio Leone.

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