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“Somewhere between a story and a biography, between architecture and a portrait of a city, Maria Mauti’s first work has the ambition - and the courage - to escape from usual categories and tread little beaten ground. L’Amatore is not the official portrait of an architect and influential man of the Fascist period, rather it is a sort of daguerreotype that has the lightness of Guido Gozzano, its witty guises hiding illusions of an era that match those of the time in which we live. Maria Mauti is brilliant at balancing the solidity of the buildings and villas designed by Portaluppi and fantasy, so much so that whenever a real figure peeps into the shot one wonders if by chance it might be a ghost from the past”.

Carlo Chatrian
Festival del film Locarno
 

“The highly effective combination of old footage and the new sequences turns places, architecture, objects and rituals in our everyday life into tangible proof of a less remote - but not less relevant - past”.

Roberto Dulio
Domus

“The texts by Antonio Scurati, read by Giulia Lazzarini, with Maria Mauti investigating the apparent exuberance of Portaluppi, rightly leave us with an enigma of performed, ephemeral happiness, allowing us to doubt and at the same time to know a piece of history, cinema offers its priceless critical freedom, making for an open piece of work”.

Silvio Danese
Il Giorno