Italian sales company Vision Distribution has scored sales on soccer icon doc “My Name Is Francesco Totti” by Roman director Alex Infascelli (“S Is for Stanley”) to Sky for …
” by Roman director Alex Infascelli to Sky for the U.K. and Germany, ahead of its Rome Film Festival world premiere on Saturday.
The intimate piece is narrated by Totti, who on the night before his farewell to soccer basically relives his life as though he were watching it as a movie, together with his fans, his team, A.S. Roma, and his native Rome, the city that during his long faithful career he has come to encapsulate like few others.This film is a homage to Rome, just like Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” and other films that depict Rome, which of course is a very unique city.
“It’s like seeing a modern gladiator telling his story in the first person,” the director went on to point out.“My Name Is Francesco Totti,” which is based on a book by Totti and Italian journalist Paolo Condò titled “Un Capitano” , published in Italy by Rizzoli, comprises unparalleled access to its star and plenty of archive material, including never-before-seen home movies and images from Totti and his family.
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