(ANSA) - CANNES, 14 JUL - There is Sergio Rubini on the Montee desMarches in Cannes, co-star of The Story of My Wife by the Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi, in competition for the Palme d'Or.
A red carpet with defections: the protagonist Lea Seydoux, positive at Covid, who stayed in Paris, and Jasmine Trinca who stayed in Italy to prepare the upcoming shooting of her debut film Marcel! starring Alba Rohrwacher. In addition to Rubini, the protagonists are Josef Hader and Louis Garrel. "I am the black soul of the film, the character who makes the story snap because I tickle the protagonist, a long-distance captain, to marry the first woman who will enter the tavern of the port he frequents". And this is how Captain Jacob Storris finds himself, in a Paris apartment in the 1920s, with Lizzy (Seydoux), his young, handsome and mysterious bride.
It becomes a devastating love story that consumes the sailor: "It's a film - adds Rubini to ANSA - about the inadequacy of each of us with respect to love. The director defines it as a wonderful love letter to all imperfect men, I add written to all imperfect men by imperfect women ". Based on the novel of the same name by Milan Fust, in the French flag competition but it is a European co-production with Hungary, Germany and in which Italy also participates with Palosanto and the support of Rai Cinema and will also be released by us.
In the course of history "the captain becomes a 'prince', his loving suffering elevates him,while I - continues Rubini - I realize myself in business and when he will be able to do without his black shadow, that is, of me he will be a better man ".
The actor talks about the cinema he loves, "the auteur, artisanal, original one. Today being authors is no longer fashionable, everything is homologated, there are TV series that also have different directors and must resemble each other in order to do not change the imprint of the series. Most of the films today are produced, over-the-counter products for platforms, for me it is a terrible blow. Also for reasons of age I recognize myself as a different cinema, a few years ago and when I found myself on set Ildiko Enyedi, with his artisan passion, I was happy ". (HANDLE).