(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 07 - A love for "the challenge. I don't like repeating myself, I prefer to confront myself with what I don't know. If there is something that scares me, I throw myself into it. I look for projects that don't resemble each other and I try to avoid what I don't know. it comes easy to me. " It is among the lines that actress Kasia Smutniak follows, Leopard Club Awardal Locarno Film Festival, where in a conversation with PieraDetassis, president of the Academy of David di Donatello, she traces a story of herself between set and life, family and social commitment, like that which led her to create, with the Pietro Taricone association, a school with a dormitory for children in the Tibetan region of Mustang in Nepal. At the Festival, for the screening in Piazza Grande, on the occasion of the awarding of the prize,chose to bring In your hands (2008) by Peter Del Monte (who passed away in May of this year, ed): "It is a fundamental film for me, it made me understand what I had to look for as an actress. in the character. On stage I put my emotional baggage and I know how much it costs me. Knowing to work with a person who will not betray you is precious. With Peter there was a perfect relationship based on total trust. "
Among the other filmmakers with whom he has the strongest bond is Ferzan Ozpetek, "between us there is a working relationship based on passion and trust". Among the new films he has shot is his first horror film, Pantafa by Emanuele Scaringi: "He tells about hypnagogic crises, those that make you wake up with your mind while your body remains dormant, a state that can give you auditory and visual illusions. I thought I was laughing. on the set and instead there was paranoia. " The interpreter of Domina is also among the protagonists of the new film by Silvio Soldini, 3/19 and of Il colibrì by Francesca Archibugi, with Pierfrancesco Favino and Nanni Moretti, from the bestseller by Sandro Veronesi, winner of the Strega award: "I play the protagonist's wife, Marina.
It is a magical set. With Nanni and Pierfrancesco, it tastes like home, friends, family. I really enjoy working with Francesca, she is a big fan of the book, and she is a woman of infinite sweetness in whom there is great trust ". (ANSA).