Omaggio a Ciripiripin e l'autore, napoletano di Roma

Probably no European city has appeared more often in more memorable films than Roma, with good reason. Not only is she beautiful, but two thousand years of continuing history have created a backdrop that lends itself to any emotion ever known to man or woman. The city of Rome produced a wonderful volume called Rome, The Great Movie Set, which we are happy to share with you here. In Italy Online - Rome in the Movies

Pantheon – Piazza Navona – Piazza Farnese – Piazza Mattei

In Baroque Rome, in the area from Piazza della Rotonda to Piazza Farnese, motion pictures have captured all sorts of atmospheres: from the folkish aspects to high society scenes, from mysterious and bewildering suggestions to the make-believe easy-going ways of the Romans.

Film directors have skillfully transformed the city into one among the other heroes of their films. The English director Peter Greenaway turned the Pantheon, in one of the first scenes of the Belly of an Architect (Il ventre dell’architetto), into a sort of alter ego of the main character, the American architect Kracklite (Brian Dennehy). While in Rome to organize an exhibition in honour of a colleague of the past, Etienne-Louis Boulèe, Kracklite participates in a dinner in Piazza della Rotonda, to inaugurate this exhibit. The contemplation of the building triggers Kracklite’s obsession about Roman cupolas he associates with his enormous stomach that causes him intense pain, heralding the cancer he will discover having.