My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) is a personal documentary by acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influencial films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neo-realism period. A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... Martin Scorsese (pronounced as Scor-SEH-see) (born November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American film director. ... The history of Italian cinema began a just few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered it, and it was precisely with a few seconds of film in which Pope Leo XIII was blessing the camera. ... Neorealism is a cultural movement in cinema that, following the realism in literature, brings elements of true life in the stories it describes, in contrast with a tendency to depict a world mainly existing in imagination only. ...
It was released in 1999 at a length of four hours. 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Most importantly, though, MyVoyage to Italy is Scorsese's defense of neo-realism as a emotional means of cleaning up the damage left in Italy during and after World Word II.
While MyVoyage to Italy is never less than engaging, Scorsese only superciliously addresses the influence these films had on his own style (almost the entire film has been reconstructed from archival footage).
MyVoyage to Italy is Scorsese's personal response to Italian films that shaped his world, films where "nothing but time stared back at us." This riveting memento mori, like 8 1/2 to Fellini, is Scorsese's pure expression of love for the cinema.
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