Sep 02, 202310:14
The director presented the second of the six Italian films in competition at the Mostra del Cinema “Finamente l’alba”
Venice 80, Saverio Costanzo and the protagonists of “Finally l’alba” on the red carpet
In Venezia 80, Saverio Costanzo “rewrites” the Montesi case. The director presents “It finally dawns“, the second film in the competition Film exhibition. A 28 million euro blockbuster film, an unusual budget for an Italian opera and an international cast Lily James and Willem Dafoe (absent due to strike), the young protagonist Rebecca Antonaci, Alba Rohrwacher in the role of Alida Valli, and then again Sofia Panizzi, Joe Keery, Rachel Sennott and a cameo en travesti by Michele Bravi.
“I am a person of the 20th century,” says Saverio Costanzo, “for me the cinema is still the focus, nothing has more fire, a driving force than images in a dark room, watching films is a formative experience, a teaching that changes us.” takes you far. I don’t know if it’s like that for a young person, but for my children it is, but in my opinion there is nothing more fascinating than cinema, a fiery passion.”
The Montesi case In general, Costanzo’s works – from “Hungry Hearts” to “Private” to the “My Brilliant Friend” series – have a literary reference, but “Finamente l’alba” does not: “I started from the Montesi case, from this photo. “ of this abused, hidden body, so similar to many tragedies of rape and femicide today, because let’s face it, in Italy, culturally, a woman’s life is not easy at all. And I imagined that it would have been an aspiring actress like Wilma. From there began the same dream and the whole story that extends through this news report, this media case, to follow in parallel Mimosa, the symbol of naivety, purity and Simplicity that changes over the course of a day and a night but without losing itself. In the end it comes out like a lioness.
Inspired by Giulietta Masina A Mimosa that thinks of Giulietta Masina, “with her unobvious, fun, unconventional femininity, a breath of fresh air compared to the stereotypical image of women and in Rebecca Antonaci I saw one of her granddaughters. “Work on a female character.” is interesting, makes me grow as a man, an exercise in supporting the feminine, which would be good for everyone.”
The divas of the 50s “Finally Dawn”, with Cinecittà with its glorious story as the protagonist, is a film in which the profession of actor is at the center, “a very difficult profession, it requires great courage, they are the ones who risk the most, they are our heroes.”, explains the director. “I think of the divas of that time and the stars of the 50s, it must have been hell to conform at all times to the artificial image that was built on them, deadly, seductive to be and in the film I’m telling, only with a pure like Mimosa that doesn’t judge them, which is a blank page, they manage to be themselves. The depravity of the Montesi case? This is not a cinema, I “Don’t think it’s a hellish world, but rather it’s the parlor sharks, the predators who exploit and take advantage of women in particular.”
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