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Sanremo 2021, Matilda De Angelis and the praise of the kiss: “It only matters that we return to kiss soon”

At first, it seemed like a comic piece, designed so as to be able to overturn gender roles. Then, Matilda De Angelis, standing in front of a dark chalkboard, she has ceased the role of teacher. The kiss that sealed the end of the Second World War, between a soldier and a nurse, gave way toactuality, told through the words of Edmond Rostand, of his Cyrano de Bergerac.

“But then what is a kiss? An oath made a little more closely, a more precise pact, a confession that one wants to seal, a rosy apostrophe placed between the words I love you; a secret said in the mouth, an instant of infinity that has the rustle of a bee among the plants, a communion that tastes like a flower, a means to be able to breathe the heart a little and savor the soul to the edge of the lips », The Bolognese actress pronounced solemnly, mixing past tradition, history and literature, to get to today, a time marked by deprivation.

Deprivation of freedom, of life. Deprivation of affections, which must not, however, be deprivation of hope.

“What must not end is hope”, continued De Angelis, who Amadeus wanted as the first co-host of the Sanremo Festival. “No matter how many muscles you put into it, no matter which side you lean on, no matter who kisses whom, no matter how, no matter where. It just matters that we get back to kissing soon. This is my hope », the last words of the actress, who in the second part of the Sanremo Festival found in herself an extra security, giving the audience a heartfelt monologue, whose lightness did not detract from its depth.

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