I went to check out the European Union Film Festival which is taking place from November 14 – 27, 2013.
There were a few interesting films to see but picked one that worked well with my schedule. I went to see Volare: The Great Story of Domenico Modugno.
Volare is an Italian biopic movie looking at Italy’s most well known pop culture icon, singer Domenico Modugno, and his life as a struggling artist through the 1950s and 60s.
Domenico Modugno grew up in a poor, rural family and is a lifelong lover of cinema. He has a dream to attend film school in Rome and unable to pay for school or get help from his family, Domenico still pursues his dream and, in the process, struggles to get work as an actor or a singer/songwriter due to his use of dialect and typecasting based on his looks.
It was a a standard inspirational movie but it was fun to watch. The movie didn’t feel too long as it only covered a short period of his life- the film school and subsequent events that led to his success. There wasn’t any portrayal of his childhood or what became of him after success later in life. Apparently Domenico eventually went into politics later in life.
