(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 23 - Legendary Alida Valli: in the world of cinema, the adjective that best suits this great actress is this.
We know it in Italy, but they also know it in the world, because this interpreter, born in Pola in Istria once Italian and fled from there with the noble family to Como, has toured the whole world as muse chosen by immense directors, from Hitchock ( ) to Pasolini (Oedipus Re), from Visconti (Senso, perhaps his most famous film) to Reed (The Third Man), and then Soldati, Vadim, Zurlini, Clement, Chabrol in a truly infinite unalista.
A documentary, not surprisingly selected by the Cannes festival among the Cannes Classics of this unfortunate year, tells the legend Valli, as in Hollywood, with the single surname (in art, the real one was Altenburger von Marckensteinund Frauenberg) was featured in the credits and posters.
But not only: the optics of the story by Mimmo Verdesca, realized with the decisive collaboration of his nephew Pierpaolo De Mejo, gives the viewer, in addition to his brilliant career to be reviewed - he started working at the age of 15 - a private dimension that completes even more the uniqueness of this woman who went through the twentieth century.
'Alida', presented at the Rome Film Festival, will make its debut in theaters with a first event-release on 16, 17 and 18 November distributed by Luce-Cinecittà which produced it with Rai Cinema.
Rebellious, unconventional, intelligent, witty, Alida Valli was an inspirational muse for directors and for the younger generations, "a modern beauty", as Cannes director ThierryFremaux says in the film, "a generous interpreter" as Bernard Bertolucci points out, who wanted her in Twentieth century.
"I grew up with my grandmother - says to ANSA Pierpaolo who in the film is a sort of Virgil in a story that one imagines in the first person by Alida (with the beautiful voice, like hers, of Giovanna Mezzogiorno) - I am happy today to share it with the others, she was an exceptional person. "
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