Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, which the pair adapted in 1984 (Chaos) and 1998 (You Laugh). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright’s vision, the film is not at all what it appears to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of that book’s jealousy-riddled plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather, his ashes, which are transported from a hasty burial site in fascist Rome to a permanent resting place in Sicily, on a trek that takes us through post-war Italy and its filmed memories, as seen in newsreels, amateur films and fragments of Neorealism. Having buried the master, Leonora addio then shifts gear from road movie to film adaptation, but here it picks a different Pirandello story, namely the last one, written shortly before his death in 1936. From the farewell of the title to its return to the writer’s last words, it is hard not to read this work, so free and yet so much a part of the Taviani world, as a moving brotherly farewell which, just as in 2012’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to give voice to literature and history.
Bravo！ 放得下的归土，放不下的归海。多么蓝的大海，多么红的头发！作家手执长钉，永负其罪，直至在红发中燃烧。 灯将灭，方见其棱，其骨，其心。抬头，他就在。
骨灰、棺材、坟墓，死亡是主题。沉重的历史缅怀＞盖过了这部电影本身。
以未完成的作品作赋，以黑白的历史影像成诗，以蒙太奇的记忆进行纪念。告别在过往战争中的遭遇，告别在迷途里依然真挚的兄弟情谊。
不了解背景看的一知半解，只感受到了一股乡愁，借着一场盛大却不被人理解的告别诉说意大利近代变迁，过程的艰辛和终点的唏嘘让人看到伟大和回忆终会被埋葬。影像质感和配乐真棒
很难不被作者的赤诚所打动，是弟弟与哥哥的漫长告别，曾经的双头导演 现在仅剩一位，叫人唏嘘。黑白部分优于彩色部分，火车段落尤为好，但还是没法忽视转彩色之后的些许断裂感…
