ì (ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 23 - Almost 60 years of love and artistic partnership around the world from Brazil to China, for a journey that includes works such as Sacco and Vanzetti, Giordano Bruno, L'Agnese goes to die, Marco Polo, The Golden Glasses, The Demons of St. Petersburg, The Industrialist.
A symbiotic bond animated by two people of extraordinary talent and intelligence, independent and free, who combine strength of character and humor.
It is the portrait of the couple offering the documentary Vera & Giuliano by Fabrizio Corallo, making their debut in the Tributes section of the Rome Film Fest.
"Talking about our love for us is normal - explains Montaldo, born in 1930 -. But it is even more beautiful to tell that together with our career path. We did it with joy and having fun".
They are joined by the love at first sight that Montaldo felt at the first meeting with Vera in the early 1960s in the office of the producer Leo Pescarolo, brother of his future wife.
"With his wonderful blue eyes he was like a prince charming even if with a bit of a crazy look" says Vera, who unlike the director was not immediately 'shocked'.
"I was a bewitched prince and that love affair for 60 years", adds Montaldo.
Through a treasure of images between life and set, the non-fiction film tells this extraordinary couple also through other family glances, those of the costume designer Elisabetta Montaldo, whom Vera Pescarolo had from a previous marriage and Giuliano Montaldo adopted and the grandson Inti Carboni, assistant director and manufacturer.
"They are wonderful people who offset each other like the yin and yang" says Elisabetta Montaldo.
An intimate and creative tension that emerges in the conversations between wife and husband, which retrace their years of cinema, between memories, anecdotes and encounters such as the foray into their hotel bedroom in the middle of the night by Gian Maria Volonté, who asked the couple how he did it. to sleep thinking that the next day he would end up at the stake (in Giordano Bruno, ed): "In the end Gian Maria got close to me and slept until morning".
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