Clarice Starling is back on the pitch and this time it should be the right time: thirty years after the release of "The Silence of the Innocents", "Clarice", the highly anticipated sequel to the film that made cinema history 30 years ago, arrives on TV winning a pokerissimo of Oscar.
This time to cover the role of Clarice, for which Jodie Foster won one of the five statuettes of the film, is the 33-year-old Australian actress Rebecca Breeds.
Produced by MGM Television and CBS Studios and distributed internationally by MGM, the first episode of the series debuted last week on CBS to the applause of critics.
In Italy it will be broadcast exclusively on Rai2 from 9 April in prime time.
Ten one-hour episodes each in the classic procedural detective format with a different case to solve in each episode: created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, "Clarice" brings into play the character of Starling left in the shadows by subsequent sequels and spinoffs. they had favored the charismatic psychiatrist-cannibal Hannibal Lecter played by Anthony Hopkins in two other films and by Mads Mikkelsen in the three seasons of the NBC series "Hannibal".
In "Clarice" the trauma created by Lecter and serial killer Jame Gumb (aka Buffalo Bill, the sadistic murderer who skinned his victims) certainly influences the young FBI agent who resumes her central role in the saga starting from the first episode in which former Senator Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson), mother of the last kidnapped by Buffalo Bill and now minister of justice, calls her to the fore.