(The article continues below - Commercial information) Directed by filmmaker Fabrizio Laurenti and journalist Niccolò Vivarelli (who is also Piero’s grandson), the film adopts a somewhat traditional register which isn’t entirely new to the biographical documentary genre, alternating numerous stock images with interviews out of the archives or shot ad hoc. But in spite of the film’s somewhat unoriginal form, its portrait of the man in question emerges with sheer force and successfully sidesteps hagiography. Generally speaking, Vivarelli’s charisma and follies lend the film a pleasant and intriguing character. In vague, chronological order, we learn about his unruly lifestyle, his excessive passion for the fairer sex, and his strange and diverse back-catalogue, which ranged from musicarello (