PIERO PELÙ – RUMORE DENTRO
Italy | 2025 | 82 min | col. | Italian
Piero Pelù is introduced in a vulnerable, almost fragile version. The tinnitus that has plagued the artist has evolved from a debilitating symptom to a depressing condition, prompting Pelù to stop and reflect. He has come to terms with the irreversibility of time and the limitations of a body that has given everything to music. It’s not really a form of giving up, more like a redefinition that includes one’s role in the collective and community. The “noise within” expands from an individual experience to a universal metaphor – the constant signal of a discomfort that involves a whole era besieged by conflicts, lack of communication, and loneliness. Francesco Fei accompanies this confession with an understated approach far from the self-celebratory style that characterizes much of the cinema of rock music. The film dwells on quietness, interrupted only by the invisible score provided by the tinnitus. Precisely in this balance between private fragility and universal reflection, between memory and the present, lies the strength of this film. (E.S)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2025
- Time: 15:30
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Francesco Fei
Francesco Fei has made a name for himself as a director, creating numerous music videos for some of Italy's most important musicians, including Franco Battiato, Litfiba and many others. His first feature film, Onde, was selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt. In 2018, his documentary La Regina di Casetta won the Best Italian Film Award at the Festival dei Popoli and the Genziana d'Oro at the Trento Film Festival. The documentary La via incantata, a Sky Original production based on the book of the same name by Marco Albino Ferrari, won the Best Film Award at the Sestriere Film Festival in 2022. In 2023, the Biografilm Festival presented the documentary X sempre assenti, dedicated to the rock band Verdena. In 2024, he presented Pellizza pittore da Volpedo at the Rome Film Festival, which was released in theaters in early 2025.
