(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 20 – Mario Martone’s ‘Fuori’, taken from a true-life episode in the life of iconic writer Goliarda Sapienza and starring Valeria Golino in the writer’s role, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday where it is the only Italian film in competition for the Golden palm. “It’s a road movie set in Rome 1980 and a story of friendship and sisterhood”, said the Neapolitan director.
With the literary inspiration, screenwriter Ippolita De Majo “has given shape to an obsession, Goliarda Sapienza, that had gripped us for years,” Martone told ANSA, “and that through a truly magical link involved Valeria Golino, who was in her turn linked to the writer.
“So while we were imagining a film about her we learned that Golino had taken the rights to Goliarda Sapienza’s Art of Joy for her TV series and the film that she then made and we promised ourselves to work together”.
The film tells a part of Goliarda Sapienza’s life: the summer in Rome in 1980 when without finances, with the manuscript of The Art of Joy rejected, without a job, she ends up in prison in Rebibbia for stealing jewelry from a friend’s house during a party in her chic Roman quarter of Parioli.
The meeting with the inmates – including Roberta (Matilda De Angelis) and Barbara (Elodie) – becomes friendship, attraction, solidarity, discovery of other worlds and will continue outside the prison, “a story of free friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and desire, getting lost and wanting to find each other”, say De Majo and Martone who filmed in real locations including the writer’s house in via Denza.
“It’s touching,” said the protagonist Golino who for 40 years has had a special bond with the writer she met when she was about 18 years old on the film Storia d’amore by Citto Maselli (Goliarda’s partner at the time) and who she then found again by directing the series from her posthumous best seller and whom she has now finally played.
“A journey that gives meaning to the senselessness of life,” she underlined.
On the set Golino, Matilda De Angelis and Elodie spoke, “there was a relationship of total love,” “even if I felt old. There is a generational gap, they are free and aware,” concluded Golino.
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With the literary inspiration, screenwriter Ippolita De Majo “has given shape to an obsession, Goliarda Sapienza, that had gripped us for years,” Martone told ANSA, “and that through a truly magical link involved Valeria Golino, who was in her turn linked to the writer.
“So while we were imagining a film about her we learned that Golino had taken the rights to Goliarda Sapienza’s Art of Joy for her TV series and the film that she then made and we promised ourselves to work together”.
The film tells a part of Goliarda Sapienza’s life: the summer in Rome in 1980 when without finances, with the manuscript of The Art of Joy rejected, without a job, she ends up in prison in Rebibbia for stealing jewelry from a friend’s house during a party in her chic Roman quarter of Parioli.
The meeting with the inmates – including Roberta (Matilda De Angelis) and Barbara (Elodie) – becomes friendship, attraction, solidarity, discovery of other worlds and will continue outside the prison, “a story of free friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and desire, getting lost and wanting to find each other”, say De Majo and Martone who filmed in real locations including the writer’s house in via Denza.
“It’s touching,” said the protagonist Golino who for 40 years has had a special bond with the writer she met when she was about 18 years old on the film Storia d’amore by Citto Maselli (Goliarda’s partner at the time) and who she then found again by directing the series from her posthumous best seller and whom she has now finally played.
“A journey that gives meaning to the senselessness of life,” she underlined.
On the set Golino, Matilda De Angelis and Elodie spoke, “there was a relationship of total love,” “even if I felt old. There is a generational gap, they are free and aware,” concluded Golino.
(ANSA).
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