“Life is unbelievable sometimes, after long spins you get right in the middle of your story.”
These are the words of Paolo Cognetti, who, after winning the 2017 Strega Prize with The Eight Mountains, which has sold over a million copies worldwide, decides to set out for a trip from the Alps to Alaska, on search for the places of the writers they formed him and rediscovered the untouched beauty of nature, a journey that we can trace in the documentary Paolo Cognetti, Dreams of the Great North.
The documentary, broadcast on Sky Nature tonight August 21 at 9:15 PM, streamed on NOW and available on demand, is in fact the moving and exciting account of this journey.
Presented in competition at the 69th edition of the Trento Film Festival, the most important international festival of film and mountain cultures, the documentary is directed by Dario Acocella (O Paìs do Futebol, L’Aquila, 03:32 – The forget generation) and written by Paolo Cognetti himself with Dario Acocella and Francesco Favale. A Samarcanda Film Production with Feltrinelli Real Cinema and Rai Cinema, with the support of the Valle d’Aosta Film Commission.
Synopsis of the movie:
In the company of his friend Nicola Magrin, traveler and illustrator, Paolo Cognetti boards a plane to Milan, lands in Vancouver, rents a motorhome and embarks on an unforgettable journey. To Alaska. It is an immersion in nature, to restore a relationship of millennia that has now polluted man, but it is also an immersion in the soul of Paolo who, through the images shot and the words spoken to Nicola spoken, rediscovered himself as a man and as a writer. Trampled places where the echoes of great American literature still resound: Raymond Carver’s grave, Jack London’s Klondike, Ernest Hemingway’s fishing lakes, Thoreau’s wild nature. He is one of the last to reach the Into the Wild Magic Bus, removed from Denali National Park a few months ago, after cherishing the memory of Chris McCandless for over 60 years. Paolo inherits that memory and returns during his adventure to let it breathe.
Source: Lega Nerd
