Synopsis
As in any documentary it is nice to see the actors in their poses as people even before as interpreters of the parts to be recited. Here we see a fatigued Massimo Troisi, both because of the shooting and his illness. Despite this, his subtle and elegant irony, his composed and pure comedy can emerge, making us forget the human and suffering side of Troisi as a man. Knowing that those were the last hours of the actor’s life, it does nothing but immerse us in a kind of poetry, the same that is celebrated in his latest film, to make the shooting universal and eternal, underlined by a touching music and charged with grandeur, signed by the great Louis Bacalov.
Troisi explains how the making of a film about a text by Antonio Skarmeta, a Chilean writer came about and how the film will not be a story about Chilean history, but a universal love story.
The dialogues of Massimo Troisi (Mario Ruoppolo) with Philippe Noiret (Pablo Neruda) are both very pleasant and funny, in Italian and French, dialogues that speak of friendship and complicity in the filmic story. A relationship between two people, as Bacalov himself says, between the postman, a person who has few interests and that does not have a life project or goals, and Pablo Neruda who explodes the creative and vital side of Mario Ruoppolo. The key word that emerges from the testimonies is "Poetry" for which inspiration is required, as Neruda tells the Postino.