A female, the power of a woman who rebels

I speak when needed “,” The dead don’t speak and mum spoke “.

Pinkplayed by the talented newcomer Lina Sicilianois the protagonist of a film as powerful as it is important, just presented at the Berlinale 2022, A female. Directed by Francesco Costabilehis first feature film, and loosely based on the book Rebellious women, How women will save the country from the ‘Ndrangheta by Lirio Abbate, arrives in cinemas from February 17 with Medusa. We are in Calabria, in an unspecified country of the Aspromonte, where the landscape is dark but the feelings are even more so, so much so that in some moments it seems to be in front of a horror. Because the monsters that are really scary are the real ones.

There is the grandmother-matriarch Bertathe daughter Cettamassacred because she talked too much, and there is the niece Rosa, who lets himself be guided by something very painful that he does not remember well. She then she was small, now she doesn’t want to be anymore. Her eyes are in love, angry, frightened, determined, even when she parades in procession. He wants justice, and even more revenge. As men tell her “I like it when you’re shaking, you finally look like a female.”

But Rosa rebels against those men, the ‘Ndrangheta and whatever else tries to make her a prisoner. For the Calabrian director A female it is a universal story, it is the story of all women who have the strength to react and fight for their future. Therefore, we regret the sticker prohibited for minors under 14: “I would have liked to take it to schools, a film against the mafias and against violence against women is not censored”.