Cinema Mattotti

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Lorenzo Mattotti, an internationally renowned illustrator, much loved by the public, has always looked to the seventh art as an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

This book, produced on the occasion of the 2021 edition of the Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon, which has dedicated an unprecedented exhibition to the artist, aims to highlight the double thread that links Mattotti’s work to cinema. This double thread has led him over the years to design the posters of films and major film festivals, until signing in 2019 the highly successful animated feature film The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily, which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

The volume is divided into four sections: Film festival posters, from the image of numerous festivals in the 1990s, to the prestigious commission for Cannes, to the Venice Film Festival; Editorial illustrations, commissioned by “The New Yorker” during its long collaboration with the famous American magazine; Film posters, including Eros, for which he drew the poetic interludes that open the three episodes directed by Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni and Steven Soderbergh; and finally, animated films, from the very first Bluebeard, through Pinocchio to the aforementioned The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicily, accompanied by unpublished sketches and storyboards.

The volume concludes with a long and impassioned interview with Lorenzo Mattotti by the Festival’s artistic director Charlotte Serrand, who traces the stages of his journey into the seventh art, which began in his great-uncle’s cinema, Cinema Mattotti.

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Edited by Melania Gazzotti
With the collaboration of Charlotte Serrand
Illustrations by Lorenzo Mattotti
Texts by Melania Gazzotti, Charlotte Serrand, Maximilien Schnel
Book design by Bunker

19.5 × 26 cm
112 pages
Hardback
French/Italian
Isbn 978-88-98030-43-9
First published October 2021

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