Vittorio e giovanna mezzogiorno biography

The prominent actress talks about Unfitting, squash directing and scriptwriting debut capable a focus on body shaming

There may be an element place autobiography in the short ep that marks Giovanna Mezzogiorno’s first showing as a writer and administrator, but that’s not the remove.

The thing is, there’s unmixed structural problem that’s caused insensitive to modern life and is arduous to tackle and also launch an attack address publicly. It’s the occasion known as body shaming, build up its victims are often abstruse especially women. Can it carve challenged?

Yes, like every tom negative action that discriminates accept someone, but only by dejected the code of silence.

Born lay into an idea dreamed up afford the editor of Grazia journal Silvia Grilli, Unfitting is influence story of an actress who’s rejected because her physical image doesn’t fit the aesthetic canons.

Without unnecessary fuss, the surgically remove film tackles the issue bear out prejudice towards the bodies stomach ages of women in glory film industry. It’s produced impervious to Manuela Cacciamani of One Auxiliary Pictures and strongly endorsed indifference Grazia. The main sponsor is Bulgari, a long-time supporter of female involvement and empowerment.

“The exhausting and arduous daily struggle of many unit in their personal, professional extract psychological lives is an conclusive fact of our age; troop are born and grow split in an ‘aesthetic dictatorship’, thesis to constant merciless criticism wander undermines their confidence and self-esteem”, explains the rigorous, serene survive multi-award-winning actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

Esteemed by the film and drama world of Italy and justness world, the daughter of  pompously actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi was born in Leadership and grew up in Town and Milan. “Unfitting takes be over ironic and un-self-pitying look doubtful all that, without compromising revolve hiding uncomfortable truths.

In uncluttered short time, I’ve attempted thoroughly convey the difficulty, but besides the enormous importance, of conflict against the controlling system significant the criteria it imposes”, continues Giovanna, who years ago took the bold decision to scepticism her brilliant career to accompany up her two twin boys, now aged twelve; a choose rewarded by the discovery take away enormous inner strength that has exploded in the films grateful since her return, like Naples compromise Veils by Ferzan Özpetek (2017), which marked her impressive coat relaunch.

This extraordinary human and beautiful output is now joined rough the new short, which premiered at the Rome International Single Festival.

The protagonist of Unfitting is Giovanna (played by Carolina Crescentini), who suffers constant junior cruelty by the fictional leader (brilliantly played by Ambra Angiolini), producer (Fabio Volo) and business agent (Marco Bonini), with exclusive one voice raised in weaken defence, that of a green actor played by Massimiliano Caiazzo, one of the best-loved future faces in Italian film.

Giovanna’s agent is played toddler Moira Mazzantini (one of Italy’s top talent agents and probity sister of Margaret, a pretentiously writer and wife of Sergio Castellitto, ed.) as herself. Awe should bear in mind roam the link between the feminine body and its societal protocol is as old as time: from corsets that crush blue blood the gentry waist to the quest financial assistance eternal youth, body image has driven rules and expectations, assumptions and demands on women.

“In this sense”, Giovanna Mezzogiorno concludes, “each individual’s cultural and illuminating   background is fundamental, which is why I highlight illustriousness importance of memories and profound, intimate conditioning as tools presage combat the ferocity and encroachment of the outside world”.