A few weeks ago, he posted on Instagram an animated image of a crying girl's face, adding only the emoji of camera, film and rose, an icon that has accompanied Liberato since 2017, creating the usual strange confusion among his nearly 600,000 followers. Today all these questions find an answer: Liberato has in fact announced the release of the film in cinemas on May 9 Secret Liberato, an animated film directed by the usual Francesco Lettieri, a director who has always been a partner in his artistic adventures. The 9th of May – which gives the title to the first song released under his signature – is now the date on which his huge fans expect a signal, an announcement and an exit from the unknown singer.
The movie
Liberato, the masked singer who, in the era of the torturous quest for appearance, plays with absence, hiding behind a technological, ethereal, beautiful, ancient Neapolitan song that has stunned the public's imagination to the point of making it the most tangible symbol of anti-modernism. -a star. As with all other projects proposed so far, nothing is known about the film: Lettieri's direction is the common denominator of all his work, so it is not surprising. However, this time, the role is shared with Giorgio Testi, one of the most sought-after directors on the Italian music scene, who has already given the cinematic debut of artists of Calcutta's caliber, Mahmoud, Paolo Conti and Nigramaro. Instead, animation direction was entrusted to Giuseppe Squillacci and illustrator LRNZ. We will then hear in the film the voices of Simona Tabasco, the Neapolitan actress whom we admired in the role of Lucia in the second season of the TV series. White lotus, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. And Nando Paoni, one of the most famous masks of the comedic cinema of Naples, historical collaborator of Vincenzo Salmi and known to the general public above all for his participation in Welcome to the south. The news stops here, we can't even know for sure whether the film's music, naturally written by Liberato, will be new songs by the singer-songwriter or whether his repertoire will be revived. Liberato music has always been closely linked to cinema. The second editorHis second album, released in 2022, presented a series of short films beautifully assembled to form a beautiful love story told in six songs and six time frames. Then of course the music Ultras, which marks Lettieri's cinematic debut, and features an entire soundtrack produced by the masked singer-songwriter. The gift Liberato then gave to Sidney Sibilia only in exchange for him Mixed by Erielast year.
Identity secret
Naturally, many online are currently speculating that the secret to the film's title is Liberato's name and face. The release announcement was seen as the moment of revelation that many had longed for and which over time gave rise to the most extravagant fantasies. Some have said that this covered face is that of Calcutta, others that of David Panizza, founder of PopX. Some believe he is the same Francesco Lettieri. Analyzing texts in recent years, the names of the Neapolitan poet Emanuele Cerullo and his colleague Livio Curie also appeared. There are those who go further and, after another surgical analysis of his writings, hypothesize that Liberato could be a young inmate of the juvenile prison at Nisida, in the Phlegrean Islands archipelago. The theory that came out after his concert in Naples, where the artist arrived on stage from the sea, in a boat, from this very direction and accompanied by the police. The thesis is also validated by Liberato's habit of opening and closing all of his live performances with the sound of a siren reminiscent of a prison siren when an escape occurs. In fact, what very few people know, a few years ago the name and surname of Liberato was published for several months on the SACEM website, which would be the French Siae, to which the artist entrusted the collection of his rights. None of these hypotheses have found confirmation since then, and Liberato's identity remains a mystery, but has become increasingly weaker over time. What seems clear is that liberato's artistic narrative, in music, also somehow passes through anonymity, which is not carried out as a kind of commercial dynamic but as a means like any other to put music in the foreground. Liberato's communication is characterized by subtraction, by creating hype which then turns online into a curiosity so strong that it makes an unknown figure in a black jacket and a harsh romantic into a real cult object, able to seize the new tonal traditions of Naples, reformulate them, filter them and present them to the public in the form dose. The film will be released exactly three months before Liberato's only live show to date is announced, at Budapest's Sziget Festival, one of Europe's most followed summer events.
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