(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 05 - Today the word eternity sounds a bit like a blasphemy, an archaic term that refers to the past, spaces and non-human conditions.
Yet the protagonists of 'She miparla still' by Pupi Avati have promised each other "eternal love" and after 65 years they are still together, having fought every day so that that word still had a meaning.
A war that no one wages around them anymore in so-called modern society.
This latest work by Avati, which promises to be worthy of unpalmares rich in David and Nastri, tells a little of this and much more.
Sky Original Film - produced by Bartlebyfilm and VisionDistribution in collaboration with Duea - will be premiered on 8 February on Sky Cinema and streamed on Now Tv, also available on demand.
Freely based on the book of the same name by Giuseppe Sgarbi (published by Skira) - father of Elisabetta (La nave di Teseo) and art critic Vittorio - the film tells the story of the long love story between Giuseppe (Lino Musella, as a young man, and an Oscar-winning Renato Pozzetto as an elderly man), and 'Rina' (IsabellaRagonese and Stefania Sandrelli).
When poor 'Rina' dies, she breaks down for the couple in the spell of eternity.
To safeguard the desperate widower, the children call a writer of little success, Amicangelo (Fabrizio Gifuni), to collect his memories.
And in the generational comparison between the two, the story develops that can be summarized in the sentence that the writer at one point addresses to the old Nino: "You are the most distant person from me that I have ever met".
"It can be considered an anachronistic love story today for its duration - says Avati -, but what interested me was not so much the content of the book, as the relationship between the writer, with a marriage behind three years and a daughter who lives with the ex-wife, and the old widower.
The fact is that then you wanted to believe in 'a love forever' as well as in 'a friendship forever'. It's true, now 'forever' is gone , but it was my duty to propose it again ".
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