Ennio (film)

2021 film

Ennio

Film poster

Directed by| Giuseppe Tornatore
Written by| Giuseppe Tornatore
Produced by| Gabriele Costa
Gianni Russo
Peter de Maegd
San Fu Maltha
Cinematography| Giancarlo Leggeri
Fabio Zamarion
Edited by| Massimo Quaglia
Annalisa Schillaci
Music by| Ennio Morricone

Production
companies

Piano B Produzioni
Potemkino
Fu Works
Terras
Gaga.
Eurimages

Distributed by| Music Box Films

Release date

* 10 September 2021 (2021-09-10) (Venice)

Running time

| 150 minutes
Countries| Italy
Belgium
Japan
Netherlands
Languages| Italian
English
Box office| $4.3 million[1][2]

Ennio: The Maestro (Italian: Ennio), also known as The Glance of Music,[3] is a 2021 documentary film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, celebrating the life and legacy of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on 6 July 2020. The film consists of interviews with directors, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, critics and collaborators who have worked with him or who have enjoyed him throughout his long career.[4][5][6]

## Content

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Giuseppe Tornatore, Oscar-winning director, pays tribute to his friend and collaborator Ennio Morricone, retracing the life and works of the Italian composer, from his debut with Sergio Leone to the Oscar Award for The Hateful Eight in 2016. The film comprises interviews with renowned directors and musicians, recordings of some of the maestro's acclaimed world tours, clips from some iconic films set to music by Morricone and exclusive footage of the scenes and places that defined Morricone's life.[7]

## Interviewees

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The following artists appear in the film:[8]

* Ennio Morricone
* Giuseppe Tornatore
* Carlo Verdone
* Clint Eastwood
* Quentin Tarantino
* Oliver Stone
* Hans Zimmer
* Barry Levinson
* Dario Argento
* Bernardo Bertolucci
* Quincy Jones
* Bruce Springsteen
* Lina Wertmüller
* Marco Bellocchio
* Paolo Taviani
* Vittorio Taviani
* Zucchero Fornaciari
* Roland Joffé
* John Williams
* Enzo G. Castellari
* Alessandro De Rosa
* Pat Metheny
* Mike Patton
* James Hetfield
* Joan Baez
* Wong Kar-wai

## Release

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The film premiered on 10 September 2021 at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.[9] It was released in Italian cinemas on 27 January 2022,[10] and digital platforms on 22 April 2022.[11]

The film was a box-office success in Italy.[12]

## Reception

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### Critical response

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 48 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Attenzione! The man who came out of post-war Italy to revolutionize the Western, Maestro Ennio Morricone, is masterfully captured in a documentary befitting his genius."[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[14]

A review in The Guardian stated:

> his documentary represents a painstakingly detailed, fantastically entertaining, and profoundly exhausting deep dive into the career of the hyper-prolific Italian composer Ennio Morricone, known best perhaps for his orchestral scores for Sergio Leone (including the so-called Dollars Trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West), Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 – and a whole bunch of American films, ranging from the great (Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables) to the abominable (Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight)[15]

while another review in the same newspaper deemed that "As a piece of film-making, this documentary is cumbersome, repetitive and ploddingly conventional – all traits that were anathema to its subject, the late Italian film composer Ennio Morricone (1928–2020)."[16] A review in The Irish Times merged those divided assessments by saying "Tributes become repetitive but there's much to enjoy in this documentary about Ennio Morricone".[17]

### Awards

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The film won the Nastro d'Argento 2022 for Best Documentary Film.[18]

## References

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1. ^ "Ennio (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
2. ^ "Ennio (2023)". The Numbers. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
3. ^ Bergeson, Samantha (1 August 2022). "Giuseppe Tornatore Adapting His Own Oscar-Winning Film 'Cinema Paradiso' to TV". Indiewire.com. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
4. ^ DeFore, John (17 September 2021). "'Ennio': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
5. ^ Bunbury, Stephanie (12 September 2021). "Venice Review: Giuseppe Tornatore's 'Ennio'". Deadline. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
6. ^ Monks Kaufman, Sophie (10 September 2021). "'Ennio': Giuseppe Tornatore Makes The Epic Case For Legendary Film Composer Ennio Morricone's Legacy [Venice Review]". ThePlaylist.net. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
7. ^ Barnabé, Luca (11 September 2021). "'Ennio', il doc di Tornatore riesce a contenere l'arte e la vita incontenibili di Morricone | Rolling Stone Italia". Rolling Stone (in Italian). Retrieved 24 January 2022.
8. ^ Film, Risi (2 February 2023). "Ennio, o Maestro — Filmes". Risi Film (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 July 2023.
9. ^ Foreman, Liza (11 September 2021). "Giuseppe Tornatore Gets Standing Ovation Before and After 'Ennio' Screens in Venice". Variety. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
10. ^ "ENNIO - Dal 27 gennaio 2022 al cinema - CinemaItaliano.info". www.cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian). Retrieved 2 November 2022.
11. ^ "Ennio review – Giuseppe Tornatore's heartfelt tribute to film composer Morricone". the Guardian. 20 April 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
12. ^ "Tornatore: vorremmo essere tutti Ennio Morricone [di Concetto Vecchio]". la Repubblica (in Italian). 24 March 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
13. ^ "Ennio". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
14. ^ "Ennio". Metacritic. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
15. ^ Felperin, Leslie (20 April 2022). "Ennio review – Giuseppe Tornatore's heartfelt tribute to film composer Morricone". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
16. ^ Ide, Wendy (24 April 2022). "Ennio: The Maestro review – exhaustive tribute to the great film composer". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
17. ^ "Ennio review: Warm portrait of cinema's greatest maestro". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
18. ^ "'Ennio', il docu-film di Tornatore sul grande Morricone vince il Nastro d'argento". la Repubblica (in Italian). 21 February 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

## External links

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* Official website
* Ennio at IMDb

* v
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Ennio Morricone

Soundtracks|

* The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* The Thing
* La Piovra
* The Mission
* The Legend of 1900
* Malèna
* The Hateful Eight

Compilations and
tribute albums|

* Pearls – Amii Stewart Sings Ennio Morricone
* The Big Gundown
* We All Love Ennio Morricone
* Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
* Paradiso
* Crime and Dissonance

Pieces|

* "Se telefonando"
* "Chi Mai"
* "Gabriel's Oboe"
* "Here's to You"
* "Nella Fantasia"
* "The Ecstasy of Gold"
* "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
* "The Story of a Soldier"

Related articles|

* Compositions
* Concerts
* Accolades
* Mauro Maur
* Andrea Morricone (son)
* Spaghetti Western Orchestra
* Ennio (film)

* Category

* v
* t
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Films directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

Fiction films|

* The Professor (1986)
* Cinema Paradiso (1988)
* Everybody's Fine (1990)
* Especially on Sunday (1991)
* A Pure Formality (1994)
* The Star Maker (1995)
* The Legend of 1900 (1998)
* Malèna (2000)
* The Unknown Woman (2006)
* Baarìa (2009)
* The Best Offer (2013)
* The Correspondence (2016)

Documentaries|

* L'ultimo gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)
* Ennio (2021)

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