The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.
Cinematography
Weber's lens caresses Paolo's photographs like they're alive.
Production
The attic discovery of 250,000 negatives is documentary gold.
Director
Bruce Weber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bruce Weber discovered Di Paolo by chance at a Rome dinner party in 2018, decades after Paolo's work vanished from public memory.
The documentary mirrors its subject: Weber, himself a controversial fashion photographer, clearly sees his own possible obscurity in Paolo's story.
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