"Acting, compared to singing, made me touch vibrations that are deeper than myself. It's a bit like going into analysis. I would do it again and I would even choose well, because for me it was a kind of therapy".
So today at the Lido the singer Elodie, for the first time an actress in TI MANGIO IL CUORE, a film directed by the Apulian director Pippo Mezzapesa in competition in the Orizzonti section at the Venice International Film Festival and in cinemas from 22 September with 01. A debut, that of Elodie, starring in the film, shot in black and white: the artist plays Marilena, the charming wife of a mob boss who, falling in love with the son of a rival family, Andrea Malatesta (Francesco Patané), rekindles an ancient blood feud.
But Marilena is also a woman ready to face the reasons of the heart and justice with courage.
We are obviously in Puglia, among the highlands of the Gargano, where the so-called 'fourth mafia', the most ferocious, has always dominated.
In the cast Francesco Di Leva, Lidia Vitale, Brenno Placido, Tommaso Ragno and Michele Placido.
The character of Marilena?
"I have a lot of affinities with her, I would be proud of such a woman who chooses life, who chooses to speak with great courage", she points out.
Pippo Mezzapesa says of his third film: "It all started from the encounter with the homonymous book by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo Foschini (Feltrinelli Editore), a detailed study of the Gargano mafia, the mafia that kills by removing your face. it was the story of the first repentant that really struck me,
this woman with this love impossible to live.
Starting points - continues the Apulian director - the use of black and white and having Elodie as the protagonist in the role of Marilena, a character that could be compared to Helen of Troy ".
As for Elodie's favorite films, "as a young girl - explains the singer - I loved VIOLA and SCHINDLER'S LIST very much, which I saw many times. And then among my favorites there is NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO. Cinema, it must be said, for me is was a great travel companion, more than books ".
Finally, the singer talks about her relationship with politics: "I am a citizen and as such I am interested in politics is completely normal, also because I believe that there is a level of human rights under which one should never go. there was a right-wing candidate with interesting ideas I would vote for him as well - emphasizes Elodie who has repeatedly sided against the right and Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni's party - and I confess that, for example, I never voted for Pd. the fact is that everyone wants to label me ".