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2024
Music Box Films
2 h 36 m

2024
Music Box Films
2 h 36 m

Summary Giuseppe Tornatore’s documentary portrait explores the breadth of Ennio Morricone's career, from his early Italian pop songs to the fistful of unforgettable film scores that he wrote. This examination thoughtfully captures insightful commentary from Morricone’s closest collaborators and contemporaries, featuring testimonies from artists ...

Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore

Written By: Giuseppe Tornatore

In Theaters Now

2024
Music Box Films
2 h 36 m

2024
Music Box Films
2 h 36 m

Ennio

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

75

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings

6.8

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Summary Giuseppe Tornatore’s documentary portrait explores the breadth of Ennio Morricone's career, from his early Italian pop songs to the fistful of unforgettable film scores that he wrote. This examination thoughtfully captures insightful commentary from Morricone’s closest collaborators and contemporaries, featuring testimonies from artists ...

Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore

Written By: Giuseppe Tornatore

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

69% Positive
11 Reviews

31% Mixed
5 Reviews

0% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews

69% Positive
11 Reviews

31% Mixed
5 Reviews

0% Negative
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San Francisco Chronicle

Feb 28, 2024

Morricone’s presence in the documentary is the key element, because by watching him, we understand the sensitive qualities that made him so good at interpreting and augmenting the work of others.

By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

Wall Street Journal

Feb 8, 2024

The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary Ennio is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short!

By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Jun 30, 2022

Happily, the film is more than a greatest-hits rundown (and at nearly three hours, it had better be): In addition to nuts-and-bolts musicology, it offers real engagement with a complicated character, endearingly stubborn and self-effacing, whose inventiveness changed both his chosen field (“absolute” music) and the one, film scoring, he entered only reluctantly.

By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

Washington Post

Apr 19, 2024

Tornatore’s tendency toward information overload is balanced by a clear affection for his subject — the film treats Morricone with the tenderness of a close friend, insisting that we see him for more than the melodies that made him famous.

Feb 7, 2024

There’s no doubt that Tornatore could have created a more artistically self-possessed homage to his most iconic collaborator, but then again, didn’t he already do that with “Cinema Paradiso?”

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

The Irish Times

Jun 30, 2022

In common with Edgar Wright’s recent portrait of Sparks, Tornatore’s film largely eschews such niceties as documentary structure in favour of enthusiastic chronology. And then Ennio worked with Pasolini; and then he worked with Dario Argento. And so on. It’s an interesting biography, nonetheless.

By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW

Feb 5, 2024

Ennio turns out to be overlong, overblown, and larded with such praises that Morricone, a modest if determined soul, would blush to hear them.

By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW

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Details

Production Company Piano b Produzioni, Potemkino, Fu Works, Terras, Gaga., Eurimages

Release Date Feb 9, 2024

Duration 2 h 36 m

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Website https://gaga.ne.jp/ennio/

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Awards

David di Donatello Awards

• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations

Golden Ciak Awards

• 2 Nominations

BIFEST - Bari International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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