(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 29 - "Regrets? Only one. Many years ago a great director like Luchino Visconti had proposed me to play the nun of Monza, but then nothing was done and I don't even remember why. Too bad, it was a character I loved very much. "
So Sophia Loren today from her home in Geneva where, together with her son Edoardo Ponti, she remotely presented her latest starring film: La Vitadavanti a sé on Netflix from 13 November.
Loren, who hasn't acted since 2013, the year in which she participated in the medium-length film of her son Voce Umana, in this film inspired by the novel La vie devant soi, by Romain Gary, is Madame Rosa, an elderly Jewish woman and former prostitute, who, in order to survive, hosts children in difficulty in the his small apartment in Bari.
Under his protection will also end up Momò, a turbulent 12-year-old street of Senegalese origins (the extraordinary newcomer Ibrahima Gueye).
Apparently nothing unites these two people: neither age, nor ethnicity, nor religion, but despite this the heart of this woman, taken by absences, and this little boy, too smart not to put himself in danger, will find themselves linked forever.
"The character of Madame Rosa - says the actress, high-necked red sweater, who held her son Edoardo's hand throughout the connection - is very reminiscent of my mother. It's true - she adds - I stayed away from the sets for many years, but I don't I also noticed it. I needed silence, to be with my children, to see them grow up ".
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