Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Laggiù qualcuno mi ama is Mario Martone's personal journey into the cinema of Massimo Troisi. By editing scenes from his films, Martone wants to highlight Troisi as a great director of our cinema even before he was a great comic actor, and to do so he outlines his artistic parabola from his beginnings to his end, framing him in the temperament of the years in which he was formed and in the city common to the two directors, Naples. With the editing of the films, some conversations intersect, not with people who frequented Troisi, but with artists who loved him and were influenced by him, such as Francesco Piccolo, Paolo Sorrentino, Ficarra and Picone, critics who studied him, such as Goffredo Fofi and the magazine Sentieri selvaggi, and two of the creators of his posthumous work, Il postino, Michael Radford and Roberto Perpignani. The exception is Anna Pavignano, who wrote his films with Troisi and whom Martone wants to meet in order to investigate the creative processes from which they sprang, and who collaborates on the film by providing valuable unpublished materials.
(Source: Official synopsis translated with DeepL)