TRADUZIR POESIA NO CINEMA: DOIS EXEMPLOS: SERGEI PARAJANOV E MARIO MARTONE

Abstract

While several literary genres, such as novels and short stories, have been the subject of numerous transpositions for cinema, the filming of the poems was intended for the biographical reconstruction of their authors, losing, in many cases, the coherence with the texts they wished to represent and creating a scenario of untranslatability. However, in recent times, some of the most interesting proposals for the passage of poetry through the forms of cinema have moved across the intersection between the language of fiction and documentary. In these filmographic works, the intention was to document the path of the word, the life of poetic thought. This article compares two such cinematic experiences: The Color of Pomegranates, film about Armenian poet Sayat-Nova and directed by Sergei Parajanov; Leopardi, film about Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi and directed by Mario Martone. When investigating the artistic conception of its directors, the work concludes that, in both films, the episodes of a lifetime are not counted, but the events of an individual aesthetic experience and a time.