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Valeria Golino, childhood betrayed and the return to America

“A film that destabilized me,” he says Valeria Golino speaking of the powerful Fortuna by Nicolangelo Gelormini, already premiered at the Rome Film Fest in 2020 and now in cinemas (from May 27). The feature film is inspired by a news story that took place in 2014 in Caivano, where she was killed Fortuna Loffredo, a little girl thrown from a building for opposing her attacker.

The director (assistant director of Paolo Sorrentino born The extra man) in his first work does not tell the facts, but rather the emotions, feelings and disorientation of the protagonist through her gaze and the imaginative reading of a cruel world.

A way to redeem the betrayal he suffers from adults.

“This film stunned me for the painful content it deals with, albeit with wisdom and poetry”, continues the actress and director, “Luck is very powerful: while I was turning it I felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable ». Valeria Golino plays a double role: she is the mother of the protagonist and her psychologist.

«The film is about childhood betrayal»Says the director. What was your childhood like? We ask Valeria. “tradition“, He answers belly, then folds back slightly:”Beautiful and difficult, everyone is confronted with the problems he encounters in the family ». And his first TV series, taken from the book, focuses on childhood The art of joy by Galiarda Sapienza. «We are working on it», he comments, «a season will retrace a part of the text».

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Valeria Golino has just returned from Los Angeles, where he starred in a series for Apple. In the 1980s and 1990s the City of Angels had become his home. «I hadn’t worked in America for a long time, it was nice to come back», he tells us, «I have many friends and loved ones there. I had fun. I don’t think I’d go back to live there, but I’d like to work every so many for a few months », he confesses.

It arrived in the States in January “When the situation was very gloomy, the infections were skyrocketing, in short, there was chaos. I was quite worried “, she admits,” then in a few months everything changed: now in California the infections are almost zero. They are American and therefore capable of anything », he smiles. “I don’t know how they do it. In a few months I have seen two opposite sides of the country ».

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