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    Il decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi
    Il decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi
    Il decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi
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    Il decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi

    By Alan R. Perry

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    This study examines Lina Wertmüller’s 1989 film adaptation of Giovannino Guareschi’s short story "Il decimo clandestino" through the lens of her documented collaboration with the author’s children, Alberto and Carlotta Guareschi. The tale itself is important to consider in its own right for its representation of Grace, a message of redemption that Wertmüller captured because she generously agreed to make changes to her plot that Alberto and Carlotta had recommended. The director’s openness to rework her film contrasts strikingly with how the filmmakers of the Don Camillo-Peppone films of the 1950s and 1960s brushed aside Guareschi’s recommendations, ensuring that the author would feel betrayed because the adaptations did not reflect the true spirit of his Mondo piccolo narratives. Moreover, Wertmüller’s Il decimo clandestino, coming at the end of the Cold War, provided one of the first occasions for critics to rediscover Guareschi, a writer whom many intellectuals had shunned because of his politics, artistic medium, and popular appeal. Wertmüller’s film is thus important to canvass when considering the trajectory of the author’s critical reconsideration.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishergoWare
    Release dateMar 23, 2013
    ISBN9788867970070
    Il decimo clandestino: Lina Wertmüller’s Tribute to Giovannino Guareschi

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      Il decimo clandestino - Alan R. Perry

      Year 2013

      ISBN 978-88-6797-007-0

      © goWare ebook only

      Editing: Stefano Cipriani

      Cover design: Lorenzo Puliti

      ePub development: Elisa Baglioni

      Bloggers e journalist can get a sample copy sending a message to Maria Ranieri: mari@goware-apps.com

      Made in Florence, Tuscany, on a Mac

      Ho una profonda passione per Guareschi e di tutti gli aspetti della sua letteratura, soprattutto adoro la sua ironia [...]. È un grande narratore ironico della famiglia italiana, e i suoi racconti hanno spesso quella marcia in più, che è dono delle favole.

      Lina Wertmüller

      The 1989 Cannes Film Festival hosted several well-known international films such as Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Ettore Scola’s Splendor, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and the work that won the Palme d’Or, Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotapes (Al via il Festival di Cannes 9). In the non-competitive category entitled Un certain regard, Lina Wertmüller also presented Il decimo clandestino, her film based upon an eponymous Mondo piccolo tale written by Giovannino Guareschi in 1954¹. As she told a reporter, she was happy to come to the festival but also relieved not to have to deal with the stress of the competition (Spiga 13)². (Cfr. The Author-Director Relationship today

      Il decimo clandestino had aired on Canale 5 a few days prior to Cannes, and a few months later, it was screened at a film festival in Münich, Germany. But because of contractual disputes, the film never attained international distribution in movie theaters, and since 1989 it has only circulated in video format. As such, the film has markedly never received extensive critique in light of its own merits and debt to the written tale.

      This present study aims to fill this void primarily through a critical consideration of the director’s collaboration with the author’s children Alberto and Carlotta Guareschi, the author’s children, an endeavor which assured that the movie would more closely reflect the tone of the written tale. Unlike the extremely contentious relationship that Giovannino Guareschi had with various directors and Angelo Rizzoli during the production of the popular Don Camillo films, Alberto and Carlotta’s interaction with Lina Wertmüller went quite smoothly – so much so that upon their observations, the director made a few pertinent changes to her film. In addition, since she had incorporated large segments of Guareschi’s narrative directly into her screenplay, she endorsed Guareschi as a writer during the waning years of the Cold War. Her film thus provided one of the first occasions for critics to rediscover an author whom most intellectuals had marginalized. Ironically, however, her faithful adaptation remains obscure while works like Il ritorno di Don Camillo and Don Camillo... Monsignore ma non troppo – films detested by Guareschi because he thought they made a sham of his literary invention – still capture a popular following with their entertainment value.

      Since most readers are likely not familiar with Il decimo clandestino, one of 346 tales of the Mondo piccolo, let us first examine Guareschi’s short story in full and then proceed to consider Wertmüller and the Guareschis’ collaboration³.

      Notes

      [1] At the outset of this study, I would like to thank Grace Russo Bullaro for helping me make contact with Lina Wertmüller who kindly responded to a questionnaire that I submitted to her. Bullaro’s examination of the director in Man in Disorder (2006), along with Tiziana Masucci’s I chiari di Lina (2009), provided me with important background information for this project.

      [2] While researching material for Il decimo clandestino, I photocopied newspapers and magazine articles located Guareschi’s extensive

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