"A mentor, a guide, I owe everything to him": Valeria Golino affectionately remembers Citto Maselli to ANSA, the deceased director who in 1986 took her to the Venice Film Festival with Storia d'amore, the Silver Lion and for she was very young the Coppa Volpi.
Golino is on the set of her first series, The Art of Joy, for Sky which she has been directing for weeks and incredible coincidences come to her mind.
with gratitude and it has always been a point of reference in my head and still today I find myself asking myself: would Citto like this?" who then acted as my mentor, made me grow not only professionally but in everything, showed me the way, made me understand that this job is made up of choices and not just instinct, that things are never easy and that what in a film you don't see it's actually the things that make the fabric dense and full of meaning.
I remember he taught me how to walk like the character, he made me visit the places where months later he would shoot, I had the good fortune in my early youth to meet a man of culture, talent who was an extraordinary director of actors, which is not really frequent".
And then Valeria Golino adds: "He had a very strong personality, he was also overbearing and with a temper, I'm sure now he would like me to say it, he was insolent and not even so democratic as a director perhaps should be and I who am now his age and I understand a matured experience very well above all thinking of me as I was, unripe, rebellious, curious".