« The art of joy », Valeria Golino signs a history of female resistance (8 vote)
The six episodes of the miniseries, available on Sky and Now, are taken from the novel by Goliarda Sapienza
Like the novel of the Catania Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) from which it is taken, the beautiful series of Valeria Golino « The art of joy » (six episodes on Sky and Now) is impregnable, alive, runs away from all sides, talks to us yesterday, today and tomorrow: it is certainly a story of female resistance, since it has never been seen such a dense story of the figures of women, each complementary. historian, starting from Sicily to the dawn of the 20th century.
The book, which promises revolutions of form and substancehe was finished writing, all by hand and all in the morning, in 1976 (but had started in 1967), the first part (the one that Golino filmed) was published in 1994 by an alternative print and the full edition, posthumously, only in 1998, at the expense of the author’s husband, always as an alternative print. It was a scandalous book that today, with a different sense of modesty, is Einaudi’s best seller since 2008 (published a year later by Mondadori) and then translated into different countries.
Because, albeit imaginary, it’s a novelOr of political and sentimental education that is worth more than yesterday today, because it puts in the foreground the intelligence of a girl who does not want to succumb and rebels against a disinherited destiny that seems marked. Modest spataro. Orphan girl born on January 1, 900, she lives in a farmer country, but her morale « against » was too uncomfortable for the times, her desire to live without constraints, social and sexual, collided against a still Christian Democrat Italy that had not achieved divorce or abortion and that only in 1981 would have suppressed the crime of honor from the code, that of « Italian divorce ».
The miniseries, of exceptional figurative folgore (I resumed in Catania and in a noble palace that also saw the filming of the Gattopardo n, 2), is the work of Valeria Golino, a good actress not new to the direction (and by Nicolangelo Gellomini who directed the fifth episode), and has in the center a great Jolly in the lucky choice of the unpublished protagonist, Tecla Insolia who has to see it with actresses of great wisdom like the amazing Valeria Brunria in the role in the role in the role in the role Nobility who suits her, unhappy for a deformed and amended son, Princess Gaia Brandiforti. But also Jasmine Trinca, the mother superior Leonora, with a claudicating secret daughter, not a dark object of desire, with whom she divides the bed when the poor modest, remained orphaned after a fire, is welcomed as a novice in a convent.
In a Night’s necklace, forbidden and forbidden loves, As in a Borowczyk film, however, the attorney Carmine (Guido Caprino) appears, who will teach her the joy of love even without any romance. The series, also released in the cinema in a reduced version, has the precision of an investigation that concerns a character but also a land and an era, passing from the public to the private individual with great inventive happiness and a pagination from a great collective training novel.
It was a long productive and authorial journey, It is for the audience that in 6 great chapters the first part of the novel, the unhappy story of Modesta (it will also be found to be raped) but destined to become the bride of Christ, as in a great Italian Melò ‘(would have been Yvonne Sanson). Golino knew Goliarda Sapienza because the writer was also an actress and taught her diction and accents, so she knew her novel and for some time she wanted to make it a film, but the subject was too vast and therefore in the end she found in Viola Presti a producer ready to risk serialization, who lives a happy moment in Italy.
Two years of almost all female writing, With Infascelli, Marciano Santella and Stefano Sardo and then the search for places, the set, the promotion, Cannes. And the happy discovery of the 18 -year -old Tecla who offers a thousand shades to the character of a subversive girl in the literal sense, who subverts every code and regulates, also quickly learning the rules of the decadent nobility of which he must undergo great abuse by exiting the end triumphant in the vision of a future that always starts from his constancy of reason.
