At 72, Isabella Rossellini reaches his First Oscar candidacy for best supporting actressfor the interpretation of Sister Agnese in Conclavedirected by Edward Berger. A recognition that comes after a long international career.
The actress chooses to announce him sitting in front of the manifesto of Europe ’51directed by his father Roberto Rossellini and played by his mother Ingrid Bergman: «I sat off in front of the manifesto. I can’t help but think about them: I always think of them, but in particular at this moment, having received the incredible news of having been named an Oscar. I would have so much wanted my parents to be alive to give them this news, but who knows they don’t know it anyway from up there. And anyway up there I’m sure David Lynch is also there».
Lynch, recently who disappeared and Rossellini’s partner for several years, has played a crucial role in his artistic life: “Our collaboration was the key to my understanding about the art of acting”.
The movie Conclavebased on Robert Harris’ novel, tells the drama and intrigues of the conclave for the election of the new Pope after the death of the previous one. Isabella Rossellini thanks the director Edward Berger, who had asked her to play a character who, while speaking very little, emanates charisma. A task that the actress faced inspired by the nuns of her childhood: «They were strong, unlike the subordinate role assigned by the Church. I was not deserving at school, but I remember them full of affection ». His presence in Conclave It is an example of how a performance can be memorable even in a few minutes (his role lasts six).
Next March 2ndtherefore, the spotlight will be focused on her. The candidacy represents a moment of redemption for a career that, despite having an international brand, has not been as celebrated in Italy. And he arrives after the career prize received at the European Oscars last December in Lucerne.
His Father, Roberto Rosselliniwas the great Italian neorealist director. Its Mother, ingrid Bergmanenchanted the audience with memorable roles, such as that of the dreamy Ilsa Lund in Casablanca. Already married to Peter Lindstrom and mother of a daughter, Pia, she left her marriage to move to Italy and live her love with Roberto Rossellini. After the respective divorces, The couple built a family in Rome, giving birth to the twins Isabella and Isolde (professor of Italian literature at Columbia University), and his son Robertino, film producer.
From a young age, Isabella has lived a cosmopolitan existence, thanks to the continuous trips with parents, and develops an open and curious mentality. At just 19 he moved to New Yorka city that already knew well for the frequent commitments of the mother in Broadway: initially is the correspondent for the television program The other Sunday by Renzo Arbore, further on he will work alongside directors like Martin Scorsese, who will also become his first husband.
Although he initially dreamed of studying animal behavior, after a period spent working on his father’s cinematographic sets as an assistant costume designer, Isabella enrolled in the Academy of Fashion and Costume, without imagining that fashion would change her life. His modeling career unexpectedly takes off at the age of 28an age considered advanced for the industry of the time. Her unconventional charm – Castana, with a reassuring face – proves to be a strong point: women identify themselves in her, A close and accessible beauty, different from the stereotyped canons of the time.
In 1982 he became the face of Lancômeand with its image, the brand inaugurates a new era: she decides to adopt a single global testimonial, and Isabella becomes the symbol of elegance and authenticity for many years.
Isabella’s passion for photography, inherited from her mother and her grandographer’s grandfather, intertwines with her modeling career. Collaborating with the greatest photographers of the time, such as Richard Avedonlearn the art of telling visual stories, a talent that will be useful in her film career. Although initially reluctant to get closer to the cinema – also because of the criticisms received during his debut in the film The lawn Of the Taviani brothers – Isabella changes perspective thanks to Avedon, who encourages it to live cinema as a “artisan experience”, without worrying about the judgment of others.
Among his best known films, The sun at midnightin which he recites next to Mikhail Baryshnikov, e Blue Velvetdirected by David Lynch. It also stands out in an ironic and memorable role in Death makes you beautiful by Robert Zemeckis, demonstrating a talent for comedy and satire. Isabella describes this experience as one of the funniest of her career, thanks to the opportunity to make fun of the obsession with eternal beauty: “I don’t like the idea of a beauty that has no life. Beauty is an expression, it is energy».
Source: Vanity Fair

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