The actress, who aspires to repeat the Volpi Cup after the one obtained last year, plays a mother from the seventies, different, forced to live a traditional bourgeois life in Rome, with a macho husband and restless children, including the eldest , a teenager who feels like a prisoner in a body that is not hers.
The theme of the gender identitythe male-female binomial, the idea of a body that mutates from female to male or vice versa, reigns in several of the films screened at this 79th edition of the Mostra.
“It’s an autobiographical film“, Crialese confessed when revealing that he was transgender before the journalists who attended the press conference to present the film.
“I tried to represent in a universal way themes that are close to my heart, such as the transition of genres, which is the movement we make from one state to another, it is a movement that affects everyone,” he explained.
More explicit was the young actress Luana Giuliani: “Emanuele is special and very loved. At first I was worried about playing this character but then he explained things to me and I really enjoyed playing Emanuele as a child,” he said.
The author of the award-winning Terraferma about African emigrants, among the five Italian films that compete for the highest award, has the talent of Penelope Cruz to narrate her own inner process as well as the complicity she had with a submissive mother, with a violent husband.
“In five of the seven films that I have made with Pedro Almodóvar I have been a mother, and I have a very strong maternal instinct,” said the Spanish actress, who entertains with intense scenes such as when she dances with her children to the sound of the notes of ‘Rumore ‘by Raffaella Carra’.