(ANSA) - ROME, 04 JAN - It's not for everyone to turn 90 and work on completing a new film, but Liliana Cavani, who arrives on January 12 from another glance, certainly cannot be defined as an ordinary woman.
"I really wanted to do it - she replies - and I am grateful to the production that took on this responsibility. The starting book, The Order of Time by the scientist-writer Carlo Rovelli, interested me a lot and then I had fantastic actors - Alessandro Gassmann, Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo, Ksenia Rappoport, Valentina Cervi - and the set was an immense pleasure".
Life and work together, so all-encompassing that you don't want to say goodbye?
"I live on set, so I feel at home."
You were one of the rare female directors in Italy, in a world dominated by men, how did you resist?
"I never thought of myself as a woman, let's say I didn't want to pay attention to it, I succeeded for 80 percent or more of what I wanted to do. But it wasn't easy, I've always had difficulty finding financing now the climate seems to me a A little changed, female directors are also more numerically and this is already a confirmation, of course they are always honest and serious, they are not cunning".
Smart in what sense?
"If women learned to make films easier things would change quickly, instead if we don't complicate things we are not happy".
In his career at a certain point Francis arrived, understood as the saint of Assisi, an undeniable lightning strike.
"Francis is the foundation of our society. I made two films and a TV movie about him and I still can't distance myself from him. Thanks to Francis I met Benedict XVI - he recalls - the pope emeritus who passed away on December 31 entitled Deus Caritas Est and called me to present it " replies the director awarded in Naples at the Mercadante theater by Terry Gilliam in the grand finale of the Capri, Hollywood festival.
His heart movie?
"All of course, but what I'd like to be rediscovered is Annibali, that film is a symbol of the Sixty-eight movement".
Are you still indignant like in those years?"Wow if I'm indignant. What is happening in Iran,
