Actor and director Michele Placido will make a film about Caravaggio

At theIschia Film Festival, where he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, Michele Placido said he is in the process of making a film about Caravaggio.

“I will finally make the film on Caravaggio,” the actor and director said. “We have closed the co-production with France and will start shooting by the end of the year. Despite everything, Caravaggio is an artist who is still not sufficiently known. He was born artistically in the Lombard school, came to Rome to enact the Bible and the Gospel, but he did it using poor people and whores as models, making them saints. This was his true greatness. He dies murdered on a beach, like Pier Paolo Pasolini, another great artist against. In the end those who want to change things always lose their pens.”

At the festival, running until July 6, Placido presented Stupor Mundi, a film based on his play about Frederick II of Swabia: “Frederick II fascinated me because he had great humanity,” he says. “He thought about man regardless of being Western, Jewish, Muslim. Today it is different, there are factions, right and wrong, and if we are divided, we will not move forward. Everyone has to do his part. Welcoming that ship should have been Merkel, Europe, so Salvini would have been displaced.”

Actor and director Michele Placido will make a film about Caravaggio

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