"Do you know what I would like? All the people who loved me have them here in front of me like a wall" says Monica Vitti. And it doesn't matter if she was young, beautiful and fragile, in front of the camera saying this sentence, because listening to it today gives chills. On November 3 she turns 90, since 2002 she has not appeared in public anymore, very strongly protected by her husband Roberto Russo, in the degenerative disease that stole her from social life. This is how it is precisely to see her again in her magnificent splendor as a gifted actress, a wonderful woman, talented, intelligent, irony, skilled as in Vitti d'Arte, Vitti d'amore, the documentary by Fabrizio Corallo, premiered at the Festa del cinema in Rome, melancholy, sadness accompany the vision.
It comes spontaneously to the many who support the story of film clips, of her television interviews, of her participations, to talk about her in the past. Carlo Verdone, who tells how "Sordi esteemed her very much, like no other colleague, because of her famous proverbial 'times'", says "people felt her close, she had entered everyone's heart", then she corrects herself and adds " is in everyone's heart ". But it is just one example among many and, for almost twenty years now, his absence is a total absence, even full of mystery (like when a year ago Russo had to deny again that he was in a clinic in Switzerland: " she is in Rome, at her home, with me and a caregiver who helps "). The film opens and closes in an empty Villa Borghese, the same city park that makes Michele Placido say:"I thought I saw her about ten years ago. There was a rumor that at 5 she was going for a walk accompanied by Roberto Russo, and I thought I had crossed paths with her".
The film, produced by Dazzle Communication and Indigo Film, a project that Rai Documentari supported and which will be broadcast on Rai3 on Friday 5 November in prime time, for his birthday, contains clips that are the history of Italian cinema starting with the first film with Michelangelo Antonioni for which she was, fresh actress of the academy student of Orazio Costa and Sergio Tofano and with theatrical experiences with Bice Valori and Paolo Panelli among others, the muse of incommunicability with L'avventura, La Notte, L'eclissi, Red Desert. And then on with the clips from the "queen of comedy".
Goffredo Fofi says: "It had arrived as a boon on cinema: there weren't any comic actresses, it was thanks to Monicelli that Italian cinema found a perfect diva". Dramma della jealousy by Ettore Scola, 1970, is one of the examples, "a kind of Italian-style divorce reverse, in which he stood up to Mastroianni and a young Giannini". Corallo interviews Paola Cortellesi, Barbara Alberti, Micaela Ramazzotti, Enrico Vanzina, Christian De Sica, Enrico Lucherini, the critic Valerio Caprara and many others. It is tender to see Gigi Proietti: "Monica has never been reluctant to say I don't make you laugh less, otherwise I become less beautiful". And Alberto Sordi, who had paired with her since Amore mio, help me by setting the box office at the end of the 60s alight, look at Vitti and declare them,both guests of Maurizio Costanzo, love: "I love you so much". Monica Vitti "is an actress - says Caprara above the scenes of Flirt, 1983, directed by Russo - who has never stopped changing, surprising, talking to dozens and dozens of similar women". Silence for many years, but affection has not been erased, as evidenced by the moving Vitti d'Arte Vitti d'amore, for Monica who has begun to forget facts, people, characters and even the interpreter, herself. (HANDLE).but the affection is not canceled, as the moving Vitti d'Arte Vitti d'amore testifies, for Monica who has begun to forget facts, people, characters and even the interpreter, herself. (HANDLE).but the affection is not canceled, as the moving Vitti d'Arte Vitti d'amore testifies, for Monica who has begun to forget facts, people, characters and even the interpreter, herself. (HANDLE).
