Alda Merini, thanks to Folle d'amore, finally gets her space on Rai1

His story deserved to be told in the cinema or on TV. Alda Merini, a poet who wrote the history of literature and who in life found success only in her last years, before illness tore her from this world and before critics noticed her. Crazy in love – Alda Merinithe TV film written and directed by Roberto Faenzahas decided to pay tribute to his talent and life through a story that, between 2009 and using several flashbacks, managed to provide an insight as close as possible to what Merini went through and what she survived. Starting from his meeting in old age with Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori, played by an always excellent actor Federico CesariAlda Merini played by Laura Morante, who did a great job both in terms of accent and aesthetic transformationretraces her life starting from childhood, more precisely from when, while still a child, she argued with her mother because she didn't want her to study and become a poet.

We find her in adolescence, with her clean and magnetic face Sofia D'Elia – «It's an interesting, fragile and knowledgeable face. Ideal for the cinema”, Faenza said of her – and of her her hunger for writing and life and then, even further, in her mature phase, embodied by a Rosa Diletta Rossi in a state of gracecalled to represent Alda Merini in the most fragile and painful phase of her life: that of detention in a mental asylum. She ends up there because of her first husband who, due to a domestic scene, decides to have her locked up, taking her away from her two daughters. Alda will spend ten years in that large barracks. Ten years in which he will meet broken women who struggle to find a reason to live and in which a doctor, Enzo Gabrici, played by Giorgio Marchesiwill encourage her to start writing again by giving her a typewriter which will become the best therapy for Merini.

Sofia D'EliaMARIA VERNETTI

With heart, emotion and wounds that have never healed, Faenza's film, although based on a screenplay that sometimes gets lost in didacticism, manages to get straight to the viewer allowing the general public to be more familiar with a poet who, with her verses, recounted the pace of life but also the symbols of Christian religious belief in a firm, solid manner, poised between earth and sky. The result is a product that makes the public service proud of its mission, with the hope that more and more viewers will rediscover the lyrics and the incredible talent of a woman who survived everything and who we started to appreciate too late.