Review questions for The Star Maker  (L‘uomo delle stelle”)
 

Read first the class web pages about this film:

1. Read the pages on Italian Neorealism. What features and techniques used in this film can be identified with the tradition of Italian Neorealism?

2.  Examine the cultural specifity as portrayed in this film.  How are represented in the film such social institutions as patriarchy, the family, the Catholic church, the police, the mafia, etc.

3. Giuseppe Tornatore  has stated that Morelli is "the hopeless witness of a historic and paradoxically unfulfilled desire of the Sicilians: to recount themselves" and that his film presents “a collective utopia.” What is this “collective utopia”? How is it represented? What does it mean?

4. Discuss the use of the camera in the film, its ubiquity, the camera angles and camera movements. How does it relate to the main themes of the film?

5. Analyze the nature of the relationship between cinema and reality in this film.

6. What is the significance of the last sequence in the film? What is it that Morelli has learned, if only too late?