2 hours agoSophia Loren returns to the movies after 10 years
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(7 years ago)Oscar Prize winner Sophia Loren, returns to the big screen for the first time in ten years as part of a movie directed by her son, Edordo Ponti. In the movie, she plays Madame Rosa, a woman who survived the Holocaust and is emotionally associated with an immigrant boy from Senegal of [...]
The film, titled “la via davanti a se” (Life before) It's an adaptation to Rome's Gary novel, “LA drenched soi,” was made earlier by Israeli director Moshe Mizrahi with Simone Signorit in the role of Madame Rosa. That realisation won an Oscar in the foreign language film category.
Loren, 84, plays the same role as Signorires, but Ponti says the two adjustments are very different. The footage started in Italy. Loren, who works ten hours a day, said the “is allowing herself to express in some way on the screen that would surprise viewers. ”
The actress added that her son is not satisfied until she gives the best. You know me so well. I know every inch of my face, my heart, my soul. She refuses to follow the next scene until I act with all my depth,” she said.
Ponti, who serves as her mother's director for the third time, says that Loren is in excellent shape.
“at 84 years of age, it is risking everything simply to achieve such a profound, challenging, emotionally or physically,”, he said, analbel. It's amazing to see it with cernergy and passion playing every scene. ”
Mizrahi's film is confessed by Madame Rosa's perspective, while Ponti's film follows the book line, which is shown by Momo's perspective. Events occur in the present, in Bari, and unfold on several levels.
The first level is the story of love and friendship between Madame Rosa and Momo, “two people completely different culturally, inconsistent, racial and religious,” explains Ponti. “Ama, shielded from the same pain after both roads have grown.”
The second level is “the history of the modern family,” added Ponti.
Madame Rosa is a survivor of the Holocaust and family heads. There are three children. A 35-year transitional woman, a 12-year-old kid from Senegal and a 10-year-old boy from Romania. ”
And finally, the political level, “that is unnecessary to discuss, because it feels in every second of the film,” said Ponti. We better focus on characters, emotions. It is up to viewers to talk about politics behind them.
“Life before” is expected to appear in the cinema in March 2020.
