Orlando Ferito - Roland blessé

"The third, Sicilian, part of the"films of Europe" cycle, Orlando Ferito Roland blessé is a multifaceted "chanson de geste", marked by anxiety and irrigated by hope. Or two viatica: the testamentary document written by Pasolini not long before his death (Le Vide du pouvoir en Italie), which metaphorically communicated his political despair about the "disappearance of the fireflies", and that of Georges Didi-Huberman (2009), which, on the contrary, refers to their "survival". Vincent Dieutre travels across the far south of Europe in search of today's "fireflies" who invent a political life on a daily basis. The filmmaker finds them, on the way, in Palermo's first gay demonstration, among the occupants of the Garibaldi Theatre or the young militants of Lampedusa. Dieutre complicates this quest, filmed in feverish video and vibrant Super 8, by interweaving several levels, in particular a variation of Ariosto's epic poem Rolando furioso, represented by the theatre of the "Pupi", which gives the film its title and establishes it in an origins story that questions and updates the unbreakable link between subjective adventure and collective destiny."
(Emmanuel Chicon)