Gigli: Non Ti Scordar Di Me
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Actor: Beniamino Gigli, Ernesto De Curtis, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe VerdiDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Mono; English (Unknown), Mono
Format: Black & White, Classical, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 73 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bel Canto Society
Movie Reviews of Gigli: Non Ti Scordar Di Me
Movie Review: 1935 Gigli vehicle a delightful surprise!
Summary: 4 Stars
After the great tenor Gigli was essentially dropped by the Metropolitan Opera, he went to Europe and made a number of films. I expected little from this 1935 curio, but it surprised me.
The story, built around a series of musical numbers by Gigli, is quite effective. Well-written and well-acted by the lead actress, Gigli, and the rest of the cast.
The language barrier between the leads is the most realistic depiction I've seen in a film of people attracted to each other but unable to communicate because they don't speak the same language. The early scenes aboard the ocean liner are very well-done and give one the real flavor of crossing the Atlantic in the 1930s.
And there is real suspense about how it will end. This is no great film, but you do care about the characters. I was nearly biting my nails to find out what decision the conflicted heroine would make at the end.
This is not the film to appreciate Gigli's brilliant singing, which is poorly recorded by the British sound engineers, but it's very worth seeing. I actually had tears in my eyes during the final plot twists. Recommended!
Summary of Gigli: Non Ti Scordar Di Me
What sets Gigli apart from nearly all other 20th-century tenors? His singing is full of contrast. Such 19th-century holdovers as De Lucia varied dynamics, tone color, rhythm and, sometimes, notes. Most singers since at best have had or have created one sonority of individual character, at one dynamic level. Caruso and those who followed him mostly sang at full voice. Pavarotti and company do little varying of dynamics and seldom shade their tones, using the same color to express both happiness and sadness.Gigli had many sonorities and two basic dynamic levels, loud and soft. Non ti scordar di me finds him in peak form and provides a key to some of his best art, making clear that it was based on chiaroscuro--the contrasting of tone colors, usually in response to words, and of soft passages with loud. He repeats the title song, singing it differently.
Gigli made extensive use of a vocal technique known as "covering," involving darkening the tone and modifying vowels, almost as if some were schwas (like the "uh" sounds in "America"). Early in the film he sings a song, "Mille cherubini in coro," "closed"; repeating it later, he covers so heavily that if you aren't sure to what the term refers, you'll know after hearing him do it.
For this film, one of Gigli's accompanists, composer Ernesto De Curtis, wrote "Non ti scordar di me" and "Addio bel sogno," while Alois Melichar fashioned Schubert's "Wiegenlied," into "Mille cherubini in coro." - Stefan Zucker
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