As a bit of film-making, this documentary is cumbersome, repetitive and ploddingly standard – all traits that had been anathema to its topic, the late Italian movie composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), finest identified for his collaborations with Sergio Leone, however who additionally labored with everybody from Bertolucci to Tarantino.
As a tribute to the person and his legacy it’s fascinating stuff. Giuseppe Tornatore, who commissioned Morricone to write down the rating for his 1988 movie Cinema Paradiso, directs this exhaustive and fervently appreciative movie, monitoring the maestro’s journey from son of an itinerant trumpet participant, to member of an avant-garde noise collective (“We wished to make traumatic sounds”), to the lord of musical misrule behind lots of the quirkier excesses of 60s Italian pop. All this, nevertheless, was a mere prelude to the principle act of Morricone’s prolific profession, as a creator of scores that would inform a narrative as eloquently as any screenplay.
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