5 thing about 'Mi chiamo Francesco Totti' From the Carlo Mazzone's coats to a very young Sandro Piccinini

After being in theaters for 72 hours from 19 to 21 October, 'My Name Francesco Totti' made by Alex Infascelli has also become available on Sky and Prime Video. It lasts almost two hours and is based on Totti's autobiography edited by journalist Paolo Condò, 'Un capitano', released in 2018 for Rizzoli. In recent years sports cinema has included on its shelves important titles such as The Last Dance and Diego Maradona: documentaries - docuseries - that bring to the screens an alternative, more personal, less field storytelling. 

'My name is Francesco Totti' is different: it is above all field. From videos of when on slazed fields he kicks a ball to the farewell game. Infascelli doesn't even convey the final speech. The director - following the biography - spoke of the footballer Totti, making him tell by himself, with his spontaneity and his feelings. It's one of the most significant things in Infascelli's film, along with four others. 

A vintage session (and a young Piccinini)

There is a lot of football in 'My name is Francesco Totti', so the stadium is the main theater of the whole narrative. The Stadio Olimpico is in fact at the center of many scenes - the film opens with a shot of the plant - and all the great moments of the life of Totti, with the exception of a few, are filmed all inside the ground. Today there is a lot of criticism circulating on the Capital stadium - AS Roma wants to redo a new one - but the aesthetics of the Stadio Olimpico of the first two thousand is something inimitable. From the film about Totti you can see how the stadium was hotter and more generous than it has been in recent years - in this period, then, watching pitch invasions and crowds of fans is quite nostalgic. The large entrance gates to the camp covered by banners, the smoke that makes the size of the curves fade, the ancient brick in the parking area of the coaches. Then, many other details that define the aesthetics of the Serie A of the first two thousand: the old TIM logo, the different balls every game, the fleets of policemen on the sidelines. Basically another world, when Totti was there.