The March on Rome | movie | 2022 | Official Featurette
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism mar | dG1fX0I2SGRpdTh2NjQ
Transcript
00:00 (film reel clicking)
00:03 - Hello, my name is Mark Cousins.
00:07 I'm a filmmaker and I am delighted
00:09 that you have come to see the film "The March on Rome."
00:13 It's been great working with Palomar,
00:15 Institute Luce, Cunetita, Andrea Romeo,
00:20 researcher Tony Sacucci, the brilliant Alba Rohrbacher
00:25 and all the team of post-production, production, et cetera.
00:30 What sort of film are you about to see?
00:33 The film, it's a very, I think, planned film.
00:38 I had to watch loads, many, many weeks of archive footage
00:42 and I planned the film in six parts,
00:45 like six movements in a symphony.
00:48 And in fact, I can show you here, my planning documents.
00:54 Quite, you can see quite a lot of notes
00:58 on each bit of the film.
01:01 So it's a planned film.
01:02 I think it's an understated
01:06 and perhaps somewhat gentle film.
01:08 Fascism was the opposite of understated
01:11 and opposite of gentle.
01:12 So I didn't feel that I needed to express your rage
01:17 at the atrocities,
01:19 'cause I think you, the audience, will feel them.
01:22 I think that it's definitely a film in some way
01:26 about toxic masculinity.
01:29 Masculinity is closely wrapped up
01:32 with a kind of resurgent fascism.
01:35 And I think therefore there are quite a few themes
01:37 about gender and masculinity in the picture.
01:40 And the film is about the past, of course,
01:45 something that happened a hundred years ago.
01:48 Or is it?
01:49 Is it really about the past?
01:51 Or is fascism resurgent?
01:54 Thank you so much for your time,
01:56 which is of course precious.