“It’s a continuation of the bad news. I see my family and professional landscape full of lights going out, until the great old people die, they’re huge gaps, but when it happens to those you grew up with, your generation, very much.” “I have memories as vivid as the ones I have with Francesco, the feeling is terrible,” Giuliana De Sio told ANSA. The actor and director Francesco Nuti, who died at the age of 68 after a long illness, is closely associated with blockbuster films such as “Io Chiara e lo Scuro”, “Casablanca Casablanca” and also a sentimental story in the 80s.
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He was 68 years old and had been ill for some time. (HAND)
“Memories that seem to be from yesterday emerge all together, the disorder, the laughter, the dinners, singing with the guitar, the Sanremo Festival that moved him as if it were a Nobel Prize, I remember the one His father’s death, his sobbing and The first direction, the first confused look in Tangier feels like yesterday. It was too soon to leave, but to be honest he left us a long time ago. Francescos – recalls De Sio – is a mysterious, incomprehensible parable of someone who has had everything and decided to lose everything. He fell into it long before it technically collapsed. I’ve thought about it a lot, there’s no real why, yes I’ve seen him suffer a lot from the death of his father, but how many times has that happened, as if at some point he decided to switch, I remember a point in time to a press conference in which he announced that he intended to commit suicide. It was a self-destruct that I never explained, although I thought I knew him well. The success – reflected – it was a detonator.”
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Did he feel it? “Yes, I used to even visit him when he was ill, the last time a few years ago in Prato, in a sad situation. Despite the supervisor’s no, I managed to get him out and take him to the cinema.” Where they celebrated him, we went with the wheelchair, it was a beautiful moment because I saw him happy.” You and your friends were standing in his at the time Proximity or was it complicated to be there? “Everyone just left him, it was difficult to get in touch, the last few times I was there he understood and recognized, so it was even more painful to see him in those conditions. Giovanni Veronesi is one of those closest to him.
The affection of the population around him is so great, a bit like for Troisi, whose funeral he attended in 1994. “They were symbols of cinema in the ’80s and ’90s, the fire years they roared, and sadly they’re gone,” concludes the actress.
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