ENNIO

Out of competition, Venice 2021

Directed by : Giuseppe Tornatore

Year : 2021

Country : Italy, Belgium, Japan

Genre : documentary

Length : 150 min.

Ennio Morricone is one of the most influential composers in the history of cinema. His work includes over 70 award-winning films, including every film by Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore and decades of iconic films in Italy, France and Hollywood. In 1964, Sergio Leone hired him to score the first of Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, A Fistful of Dollars. Morricone’s soundtrack for the last of the “Dollars trilogy”, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, is widely considered one of the most influential film scores in cinema history. Morricone has inspired many musicians from film scoring to rock bands, including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Dire Straits, Muse, Metallica and Radiohead. Here is his story.