Valeria Golino is Goliarda Sapienza in outside of Martone

“The hours of the present are already legend”, read Goliarda and Roberta on a wall in Rome. An inscription that seems to seal the suspended time of Outthe new film by Mario Martonein competition a Canneswhere freedom is measured in the margins, inhabited by irregular women, outside the ranks. It is a kind of hymn – as they say today – to these women outsiders and female bonds free from rules and prejudices, friendships on the edge of attraction and love, intense and together to read.

Goliarda Sapienza, played by Valeria GolinoHe ends up in Rebibbia in 1980 for stealing some jewels from a Radical Chic friend. The film, which starts from the books of Sapienza The University of Rebibbia And The certainties of doubt, He alternates the past “inside”, behind the bars, and the “out” one. Paradoxically, between younger and very different prisoners from her, Goliarda, writer with a beautiful bourgeois house with Parioli and a novel that cannot publish, experiences a new freedom. Outside, in fact, he meets in Roberta (Matilda De Angelis, perfect when he walks on the Wild Side of this character), a young rebel involved in the armed struggle, and Barbara (Elodie), looking for an honest life inside a small village perfumery.

The direction, as the lives that tells, moves in waste, follows a broken, elliptical rhythm, where the fittings flakes and the shots often remain suspended, lateral. Out It is a film that breathes with its protagonists, chasing them more than telling them. He does not explain, let the bodies say, the non -said to suggest. And in this Rome affected by an implacable summer, Valeria Golino gives its goliarda a precise and detained vibration, made of hesitation, waste, returns; She is an adult woman, disillusioned, but still capable of falling in love with a gesture, a voice, a possibility. Outside, in a different way of conceiving life.