Berlinetta At Cinecittà World: Time Machine
Luxferity, 01.03.2024
The place where dreams have never stopped coming true. In the background diaphanous (blurry) scenographies and the presence of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck embraced in an eternal Rome paying attention to the instructions given them by William Wyler. A moment later here is Federico Fellini directing Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg… towards the legend. Her sensuality and the majesty of the Fontana di Trevi. In the background the notes of Domenico Modugno and his Italian poetry.
“Penso che un sogno così non ritorni mai più
Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu.
Poi d’improvviso venivo dal tempo rapito.
E incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito.
Volare oh oh.
Cantare oh oh.
Nel blu dipinto di blu.”
Time goes by fast and everything becomes evanescent.
Here are Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.
La Dolce Vita.
He gesticulates in passionate tones. He is telling stories of past and future competitions, of corrida, bulls and matadors as well as of magnificent cars and Gentleman Drivers, when the starter lowers the flag.
You and your adversaries.
You versus all the others.
The Mille Miglia to go full throttle: Radicofani, Passo della Futa, Passo della Raticosa.
The Targa Florio to leave you breathless: Cerda, Caltavuturo, Castelbuono, Collesano.
Then as if midnight had struck they run around the corner where a splendid Fuoriserie awaits them. Red. Ready to join friends at Elsa Maxwell’, Princess Ira Fuerstenberg’ or Domitilla Ruspoli’.
At dawn with the same Fuoriserie ready for the checkered flag.
Yesterday and today too.
Berlinetta, Time Machine.
The Italian dream come true.
Its partner the Gentleman Driver, protagonist of our days and representing a romantic age, not passed but always actual, embodying culture, refinement, charme but even impudence, courage and a great joy of living full throttle challenging the future.
Berlinetta: ready to travel around the world
Berlinetta tells about the “Dolce Vita”
Through the indiscreet eye of an old photographic lens, Fabrizio Ferrari Effedueotto, has imagined and fixed the slow moments of a passage of time so distant and yet so current.
Poetry.