News | Sunday, 08 February 2009

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Murder, Elio wrote

Passers-by at the Sa Maison area in Pietà yesterday morning were alarmed when they saw men dressed in the white overalls worn by the police forensic squad, looking attentively inside a white car in front of the boathouse at Sa Maison. To make it look it look more convincing, there were even police barriers surrounding the “murder scene”. In fact, some attentive readers even called media organisations to report about the presence of a dead man on site.
However, when some press photographers, including a PBS cameraman, went on site, they discovered that the “murder scene” was in fact a set of Maltese veteran film-maker Elio Lombardi’s latest film. Lombardi, 65, is renowned for his kitsch, self-made, populist movies, which are however a hit with the public at large. Lombardi has been directing films since 1989, when he filmed his first full-feature film entitled “Frida”. Since then, he issued a total of 17 films, with titles such as “Minn got-tagen ghal gon-nar”, “Il-hmar taqtaghlu denbu”, and “Mix-xewk johrog il-ward” (Photo by Denise Scicluna)

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