This week, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary arrives in Italian cinemas, screening between Tuesday and Thursday. The film – a telling of designer Brunello Cucinelli's life story – is written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Cinema Paradiso (1988), with music by fellow Academy Award-winner Nicola Piovani. It is an extraordinary alliance – the master of Italian nostalgia turning his lens on one of the titans of the fashion industry.
The film weaves documentary with fictionalised retellings of major moments in Cucinelli’s life. Tornatore describes the project with characteristic lyricism. “It is not quite a documentary, nor a feature film, nor a commercial – but a blend of all three,” he writes in his director’s notes.
“As the narrative unfolds, these two styles do more than simply co-exist: they intersect and occasionally spill into one another, giving rise to a structure that embraces risk and experimentation.
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