Because La Porta Rossa 3 is a fiction to be protected

It’s a bit sad that when Rai produces a product with thriller and mystery veins we continue to sift through the catalogs of the platforms in search of a title capable of attracting our attention, as if what generalist television offers us is never enough. Fortunately there are products like The Red Door, the fiction co-produced by Rai Fiction and Garbo Produzioni conceived by Carlo Lucarelli managed, over the course of its three seasons, to stage a story of borders, limits, universes and conflicts as not seen for some time. The adventures of the «Ghost»-style ghost played by linen pillow, strong and magnetic even if transparent and in the form of ectoplasm, they possess, in fact, something magical, a sort of intrinsic strength that goes very well with intrigues to unravel, pending loves to clarify and the quadrille of twists to write off that they have become a must de The Red Door.

We’re actually tired of reading comments full of resentment and weariness against a television that doesn’t dare and doesn’t go further since, when it happens, we’re very good at dodging the merits, as if it didn’t affect us. The Red Doorhowever, that limit has brilliantly exceeded it: he did so through an extremely dark story framed by a cold, almost Scandinavian light and by a plot that cuts and cuts like a sharp blade. Understanding whether or not Cagliastro will cross the phantom red door of the title, leaving the Earth on which he was forced to wander after his death, is, in fact, the main tangle to be resolved in a season that has decided to return to the nucleus from which The Red Door it started, that is, from the triangle formed by Cagliastro, his wife Anna and Vanessa, the medium who manages to perceive his presence.

Literature has taught us that sentimental drama and mystery were a winning couple, but that Rai2 dared to insert the paranormal into it was actually anything but obvious. To make everything even more profound are also the interpretations of the protagonists, most of whom are forced to deal once and for all with detachment, loss, that journey that leads a life to break and never (almost) to return more. Very good Gabriella Pession And Valentina Romanirising star not only of Rai2 seriality – we will see her, in fact, soon also in the third season of Sea out – but also of auteur cinema – will, in fact, be one of the protagonists of The Sun of the Futurethe latest film by Nanni Moretti -, as well as Pierpaolo Spollonwhat The Red Door demonstrates, as well as he had in Blancato be perfectly believable even in dramatic roles as well as brilliant ones, e Gaetano Bruno who, hush hush, is also building an artistic career abroad. In short, now that the fiction is on the air let’s try not to let it get away: the quality and magnetism that we try so hard to find on distant shores often knocks much closer than we think.

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