The film “Laura Pausini – Nice to meet you” traces the career of the “girl from Solarolo”. Starting with a question: what life would you have lived if you hadn’t won the Sanremo Festival in 1993?
The stardom of an antidiva. The meaning of the film could be summarized in this way
Laura Pausini-Nice to meet you
mulled over by the singer herself to endure the blackout imposed by the pandemic, written with Monica Rametta and Ivan Cotroneo, produced by Endemol Shine Italia (Amazon Prime Video). The direction is by Cotroneo himself and the choice could not have been happier, so much it is respectful of the most sensitive aspects of singer from Romagna, now famous around the world. There is a question that haunts Pausini and holds the whole story together: what life she would have lived if she, in 1993, she hadn’t won the Sanremo Festival? The images of that Festival are tender and merciless: Laura sings «La solitudine», escorted by Pippo Baudo who immediately senses the potentialbut on stage it is still clumsy and awkwardwith a party dress that looks very “girl from Solarolo”, province of Ravenna.
The most interesting part of the film is precisely that played on this double register. On the one hand, the girl studying attechnical Institute (how to become potters), frequenta the oratoryit will be accompanies his father to the piano bar (but I remember that at that Sanremo Baudo exalted the professionalism of the young interpreter). On the other hand, the amazing successes of the public, from the first time at San Siro until ainternational statements, especially in the Latin American world. Pausini’s concern (especially in the dialogue with her parents) is that they exist in her two separate personalities, mother and artist. She would like to be one woman, with all of them the frailties (that sense of loneliness that assails you even when the stadium is packed with fans), fears (maybe not to spend too much time with the daughter), i dubbi (I’m surrounded by people who show me affection just because I’m famous?) who accompany the life of one pop star that has not forgotten its roots.
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