SummaryGiuseppe Tornatore’s documentary portrait explores the breadth of Ennio Morricone's career, from his early Italian pop songs to the fistful of unforgettable film scores that he wrote. This examination thoughtfully captures insightful commentary from Morricone’s closest collaborators and contemporaries, featuring testimonies from artists and direc... Read More
Directed By:Giuseppe Tornatore
Written By:Giuseppe Tornatore
Ennio
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Generally Favorable
75
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Universal Acclaim
8.1
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
75
69% Positive
11 Reviews
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31% Mixed
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Feb 28, 2024
100
Morricone’s presence in the documentary is the key element, because by watching him, we understand the sensitive qualities that made him so good at interpreting and augmenting the work of others.
Feb 8, 2024
80
The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary Ennio is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short!
Jun 30, 2022
80
Happily, the film is more than a greatest-hits rundown (and at nearly three hours, it had better be): In addition to nuts-and-bolts musicology, it offers real engagement with a complicated character, endearingly stubborn and self-effacing, whose inventiveness changed both his chosen field (“absolute” music) and the one, film scoring, he entered only reluctantly.
Apr 19, 2024
75
Tornatore’s tendency toward information overload is balanced by a clear affection for his subject — the film treats Morricone with the tenderness of a close friend, insisting that we see him for more than the melodies that made him famous.
Feb 7, 2024
75
There’s no doubt that Tornatore could have created a more artistically self-possessed homage to his most iconic collaborator, but then again, didn’t he already do that with “Cinema Paradiso?”
Jun 30, 2022
60
In common with Edgar Wright’s recent portrait of Sparks, Tornatore’s film largely eschews such niceties as documentary structure in favour of enthusiastic chronology. And then Ennio worked with Pasolini; and then he worked with Dario Argento. And so on. It’s an interesting biography, nonetheless.
Feb 5, 2024
50
Ennio turns out to be overlong, overblown, and larded with such praises that Morricone, a modest if determined soul, would blush to hear them.
User score
Universal Acclaim
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May 18, 2024
4
O talento do Ennio é indiscutível, com momentos que beiram a genialidade mesmo. Mas o documentário é um pé no caso, são duas horas e meia no mesmo formato: excesso de entrevistados babando ovo, em cortes rápidos (chega um momentoem que os adjetivos se esgotam); a cronologia dos filmes se mantém, com a inserção de trechos marcantes; o cenário não muda, ora de filmes ora o próprio homenageado e seus adoradores em close falando a respeito. Nada sobre o homem ou algo mais interessante sobre o processo de criação, apenas uma ou outra fala (como usou objetos em algumas composições, por eexemplo). E, claro, seguiu a cronologia mainstream, inclusive com ênfase dramático no Oscar.
Production Company:
- Piano b Produzioni
- Potemkino
- Fu Works
- Terras
- Gaga.
- Eurimages
Release Date:Feb 9, 2024
Duration:2 h 36 m
Awards
David di Donatello Awards
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 2 Nominations
BIFEST - Bari International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
